[Numpy-discussion] Status of Numeric
Edward C. Jones
edcjones at erols.com
Thu Jan 22 09:48:46 EST 2004
Arthur wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 16:22:43 -0700, Tim Hochberg
> <tim.hochberg at ieee.org> wrote:
>
>
>>Arthur wrote:
>
>>The first is that last I heard the crossover point where
>>Numarray becomes faster than Numeric is about 2000 elements. It would be
>>nice if that becomes smaller, but I certainly wouldn't call it extreme.
>>In fact I'd venture that the majority of cases where numeric operations
>>are a bottleneck would already be faster under Numarray. In my
>>experience, while it's not uncommon to use short arrays, it is rare for
>>them to be a bottleneck.
>
>
> Couldn't one argue that - for example - in 3d graphic applications the
> performance as to short arrays is crucial.
In some numerical / graphing packages, there are specialized, fast,
fixed-size arrays for sizes less than 4 by 4.
More information about the Python-list
mailing list