Question about scientific calculations in Python

Martin Kaufmann martinkaufmann at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 13 07:21:43 EST 2002


On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:13:50 -0600, "Jason Orendorff"
<jason at jorendorff.com> wrote:

>Keep in mind, though, that the code I wrote creates a huge 2D array
>when it is presented with largeish 1D arrays as arguments.
>
>So if s_vector is 10000 elements and r_vector is 10000 elements,
>then a 800-MB array is created.  If you've got the RAM, this is
>okay; otherwise you're in trouble.

The machine I'm using for my calculations has 2 GB of memory. And the
vectors probably have only about n00-n000 entries.

>Also, does anyone have weave.blitz?  I'd like to see how it does
>compared to the other approaches.

I will try that tomorrow. Which part should I exactly blitz? 

Thanks,

Martin



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