Faster alternatives to numpy.argmax/argmin which is slow

Question

I am using a lot of argmin and argmax in Python.

Unfortunately, the function is very slow.

I have done some searching around, and the best I can find is here

Answer 1

Can you post some code? Here is the result on my pc:

x = np.random.rand(10000)
%timeit np.max(x)
%timeit np.argmax(x)

output:

100000 loops, best of 3: 7.43 µs per loop
100000 loops, best of 3: 11.5 µs per loop