[Numpy-discussion] extremely slow array indexing?

[Robert Kern]

Fang Fang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am writing code to sort the columns according to the sum of each
> column. The dataset is huge (50k rows x 300k cols), so i have to read
> line by line and do the summation to avoid the out-of-memory problem.
> But I don't know why it runs very slow, and part of the code is as
> follows. Can anyone point out what needs to be modified to make it run
> fast? thanks in advance!

Nothing leaps out. Generally, it's difficult (or impossible) to answer such
questions without running code. Can you distill the time-consuming part into a
small, self-contained script with fake data that we can run?

-- 
Robert Kern

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