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Re^4: A bad shuffle

by tlm (Prior)
on Mar 22, 2005 at 02:41 UTC ( [id://441372]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re^3: A bad shuffle
in thread A bad shuffle

Yes, I was looking at the code for List::Util earlier today. In addition to the C implementatin of the Fisher-Yates shuffle, it includes the following "backup" in Perl:

sub shuffle (@) { my @a=\(@_); my $n; my $i=@_; map { $n = rand($i--); (${$a[$n]}, $a[$n] = $a[$i])[0]; } @_; }
Pretty gnarleous, IMO. Kind of like a hybrid between F-Y and Tanktalus's shuffler.

The C implementation of List::Util::shuffle is 10-20x faster than the Perl implementation. For the practical programmer: end of story. Still, to satisfy my monkly preoccupation with how many angels can lambada on the head of a pin, and more importantly, in order to reduce this dead horse to a thin protein film, I benchmarked the three shufflers: ta = Tanktalus's shuffler; lu = Perl implementation of List::Util::shuffle; rp = random_perm:

N = 1000 Rate rp lu ta rp 230/s -- -10% -22% lu 257/s 12% -- -13% ta 296/s 29% 15% -- N = 10_000 Rate ta lu rp ta 14.3/s -- -27% -34% lu 19.6/s 37% -- -10% rp 21.7/s 52% 11% -- N = 100_000 Rate ta lu rp ta 0.144/s -- -92% -93% lu 1.75/s 1118% -- -13% rp 2.01/s 1302% 15% --

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