[SciPy-User] which EPD?

David Cournapeau cournape at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 19:08:53 EDT 2011


On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 6:54 AM, David Baddeley
<david_baddeley at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Can't really comment on EPD, but for the stock ubuntu/debian packages the 64 bit
> versions seem noticeably faster, if somewhat more memory hungry

64 bits will take more memory: every pointer takes 8 bytes instead of
4, and the way cpython works requires the use of a lot of pointers.

cheers,

David



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