in reply to Re^2: Faster push and shift
in thread Faster push and shift

how much faster do you predict it now will be?

Doing it the OPs way on 1 million records takes 3.3 seconds:

c:\test>junk91 junk.dat
3.25699996948242
([1, 3, 4, 4, 1, 3, 2], [4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4])

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Same file doing it my way produces the same results in 1/2 a millisecond:

c:\test>junk91-2 junk.dat
0.000479936599731445
([1, 3, 4, 4, 1, 3, 2], [4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4])

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I make that 6,600 times faster. The OPs mileage my vary.

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