Numpy loading csv TOO slow compared to Matlab

Question

I posted this question because I was wondering whether I did something terribly wrong to get this result.

I have a medium-size csv file and I tried to use numpy to l

Answer 1

If you want to just save and read a numpy array its much better to save it as a binary or compressed binary depending on size:

my_data = np.random.rand(1500000, 3)*10
np.savetxt('./test.csv', my_data, delimiter=',', fmt='%.2f')
np.save('./testy', my_data)
np.savez('./testz', my_data)
del my_data

setup_stmt = 'import numpy as np'
stmt1 = """\
my_data = np.genfromtxt('./test.csv', delimiter=',')
"""
stmt2 = """\
my_data = np.load('./testy.npy')
"""
stmt3 = """\
my_data = np.load('./testz.npz')['arr_0']
"""

t1 = timeit.timeit(stmt=stmt1, setup=setup_stmt, number=3)
t2 = timeit.timeit(stmt=stmt2, setup=setup_stmt, number=3)
t3 = timeit.timeit(stmt=stmt3, setup=setup_stmt, number=3)

genfromtxt 39.717250824
save 0.0667860507965
savez 0.268463134766