How to calculate simple moving average faster in C#?

Question

What is the fastest library/algorithm for calculating simple moving average? I wrote my own, but it takes too long on 330 000 items decimal dataset.

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Answer 1

// simple moving average
int moving_average(double *values, double *&averages, int size, int periods)
{
    double sum = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < size; i ++)
        if (i < periods) {
            sum += values[i];
            averages[i] = (i == periods - 1) ? sum / (double)periods : 0;
        } else {
            sum = sum - values[i - periods] + values[i];
            averages[i] = sum / (double)periods;
        }
    return (size - periods + 1 > 0) ? size - periods + 1 : 0;
}

One C function, 13 lines of codes, simple moving average. Example of usage:

double *values = new double[10]; // the input
double *averages = new double[10]; // the output
values[0] = 55;
values[1] = 113;
values[2] = 92.6;
...
values[9] = 23;
moving_average(values, averages, 10, 5); // 5-day moving average