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Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster?

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On 20 July 2013 21:22,  <pablobarhamalzas@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, I'm working on a predator/prey simulation, which evolve using genetic algorithms. At the moment, they use a quite simple feed-forward neural network, which can change size over time. Each brain "tick" is performed by the following function (inside the Brain class):
>
<CODE>
>
> The function is actually quite fast (~0.040 seconds per 200 calls, using 10 input, 20 hidden and 3 output neurons), and used to be much slower untill I fiddled about with it a bit to make it faster. However, it is still somewhat slow for what I need it.
>
> My question to you is if you an see any obvious (or not so obvious) way of making this faster. I've heard about numpy and have been reading about it, but I really can't see how it could be implemented here.

Currently we're just guessing; if you gave us an appropriate stand-in
for "self" (so that we can call the function) we could be helpful much
more easily.

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How can I make this piece of code even faster? pablobarhamalzas@gmail.com - 2013-07-20 13:22 -0700
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Fabio Zadrozny <fabiofz@gmail.com> - 2013-07-20 18:05 -0300
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-07-20 17:25 -0400
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? pablobarhamalzas@gmail.com - 2013-07-20 15:45 -0700
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 08:55 +1000
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? pablobarhamalzas@gmail.com - 2013-07-20 16:24 -0700
    Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 09:29 +1000
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-21 05:11 +0000
    Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Paul Rudin <paul.nospam@rudin.co.uk> - 2013-07-21 08:11 +0100
      Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 19:21 +1000
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2013-07-21 09:10 +0200
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 10:11 +0300
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Christian Gollwitzer <auriocus@gmx.de> - 2013-07-21 09:24 +0200
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? pablobarhamalzas@gmail.com - 2013-07-21 03:19 -0700
    Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-07-21 10:31 +0000
      Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? pablobarhamalzas@gmail.com - 2013-07-21 03:48 -0700
        Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2013-07-21 14:49 +0200
      Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 20:48 +1000
    Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2013-07-21 09:27 -0600
  Re: How can I make this piece of code even faster? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-07-21 12:39 +0100

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