Improve performance of python script using numba jit

Question

I am running a sample python simulation to predict a weighted & regular dice. I would like to use numba to help speed up my script but I receive an error:

<timed exec>:6: NumbaWarning: 
Compilation is falling back to object mode WITH looplifting enabled because Function "roll" failed type inference due to: Untyped global name 'sum': cannot determine Numba type of <class 'builtin_function_or_method'>

File "<timed exec>", line 9:
<source missing, REPL/exec in use?>

Here is my original code: Is there another type of numba expression I can use instead? Right now I'm testing using input of 2500 rolls; want to get this down to 4 seconds (it's currently at 8.5 seconds).

%%time
from numba import jit
import random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy

@jit
def roll(sides, bias_list):
    assert len(bias_list) == sides, "Enter correct number of dice sides"
    number = random.uniform(0, sum(bias_list))
    current = 0
    for i, bias in enumerate(bias_list):
        current += bias
        if number <= current:
            return i + 1

no_of_rolls = 2500
weighted_die = {}
normal_die = {}
#weighted die

for i in range(no_of_rolls):
        weighted_die[i+1]=roll(6,(0.15, 0.15, 0.15, 0.15, 0.15, 0.25))
#regular die  
for i in range(no_of_rolls):
        normal_die[i+1]=roll(6,(0.167, 0.167, 0.167, 0.167, 0.167, 0.165))

plt.bar(*zip(*weighted_die.items()))
plt.show()
plt.bar(*zip(*normal_die.items()))
plt.show()

Answer 1

Using Random Choices

Refactored Code

import random
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

no_of_rolls = 2500

# weights
normal_weights = (0.167, 0.167, 0.167, 0.167, 0.167, 0.165)
bias_weights = (0.15, 0.15, 0.15, 0.15, 0.15, 0.25)

# Replaced roll function with random.choices 
# Reference: https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_random_choices.asp
bias_rolls = random.choices(range(1, 7), weights = bias_weights, k = no_of_rolls)
normal_rolls = random.choices(range(1, 7), weights = normal_weights, k = no_of_rolls)

# Create dictionaries with same structure as posted code
weighted_die = dict(zip(range(no_of_rolls), bias_rolls))
normal_die = dict(zip(range(no_of_rolls), normal_rolls))

# Use posted plotting calls
plt.bar(*zip(*weighted_die.items()))
plt.show()
plt.bar(*zip(*normal_die.items()))
plt.show()

Performance

*Not including plotting.*
Original code: ~6 ms
Revised code:  ~2 ms
(3x improvement, but not sure why the post mentions 8 seconds to run)