Check if two numpy arrays are identical

Question

Suppose I have a bunch of arrays, including x and y, and I want to check if they\'re equal. Generally, I can just use np.all(x == y) (

Answer 1

Until this is implemented in numpy natively you can write your own function and jit-compile it with numba:

import numpy as np
import numba as nb


@nb.jit(nopython=True)
def arrays_equal(a, b):
    if a.shape != b.shape:
        return False
    for ai, bi in zip(a.flat, b.flat):
        if ai != bi:
            return False
    return True


a = np.random.rand(10, 20, 30)
b = np.random.rand(10, 20, 30)


%timeit np.all(a==b)  # 100000 loops, best of 3: 9.82 µs per loop
%timeit arrays_equal(a, a)  # 100000 loops, best of 3: 9.89 µs per loop
%timeit arrays_equal(a, b)  # 100000 loops, best of 3: 691 ns per loop

Worst case performance (arrays equal) is equivalent to np.all and in case of early stopping the compiled function has the potential to outperform np.all a lot.