SIMD powered Python

[Bytter]

Hi...

True... But maybe in NumPy arrays that would be more feasible...?

Cheers.

Hugo Ferreira

Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch escreveu:
> In <1182554657.444684.268050 at i13g2000prf.googlegroups.com>, Bytter wrote:
>
> > Is there any I&D ongoing about using SIMD [1] instructions, like SSE
> > [2], to speed up Python, especially regarding functional features,
> > like list comprehension, map and reduce, etc.. ?
>
> SIMD instruction sets know about "low level" data types, Python is about
> objects.  `map()`, `reduce()`, list comprehension work on arbitrary
> iterables so how do you expect SIMD instructions handle this?  Even simple
> lists contain objects and those don't have to be of the same type.
>
> Ciao,
> 	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch