[Original Problem: HackerRank][1] I am trying to count the number of inversions using *Binary Indexed Tree* in an array. I've tried to optimise my code as much as I can. However, I still got TLE for the last 3 test cases. Any ideas that I can further optimise my code? # Enter your code here. Read input from STDIN. Print output to STDOUT #!/usr/bin/python from copy import deepcopy class BinaryIndexedTree(object): """Binary Indexed Tree """ def __init__(self, n): self.n = n + 1 self.bit = [0] * self.n def update(self, i, k): """Adds k to element with index i """ while i <= self.n - 1: self.bit[i] += k i = i + (i & -i) def count(self, i): """Returns the sum from index 1 to i """ total = 0 while i > 0: total += self.bit[i] i = i - (i & -i) return total def binary_search(arr, target): """Binary Search """ left, right = 0, len(arr) - 1 while left <= right: mid = left + ((right - left) >> 1) if target == arr[mid]: return mid elif target < arr[mid]: right = mid - 1 else: left = mid + 1 # If not found, return -1. return -1 T = input() for iterate in xrange(T): n = input() q = [ int( i ) for i in raw_input().strip().split() ] answer = 0 # Write code to compute answer using x, a and answer # Build a Binary Indexed Tree. bit = BinaryIndexedTree(n) # Copy q and sort it. arr = sorted(deepcopy(q)) # index array. index = map(lambda t: binary_search(arr, t) + 1, q) # Loop. for i in xrange(n - 1, -1, -1): answer += bit.count(index[i]) bit.update(index[i] + 1, 1) print answer [1]: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/insertion-sort