[Numpy-discussion] numexpr thoughts

[David M. Cooke]

On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 11:33:45AM -0700, Tim Hochberg wrote:
> Tim Hochberg wrote:
> 
> >>3. Reduction. I figure this could be done at the end of the program in
> >>  each loop: sum or multiply the output register. Downcasting the
> >>  output could be done here too.
> >> 
> 
> I'm still not excited about summing over the whole output buffer though. 
> That ends up allocating and scanning through a whole extra buffer which 
> may result in a signifigant speed and memory hit for large arrays. Since 
> if we're only doing this on the way out, there should be no problem just 
> allocating a single double (or complex) to do the sum in.  On the way 
> in, this could be set to zero or one based on what the last opcode is 
> (sum or product). Then the SUM opcode could simply do something like:

No, no, we'd just sum over the 128 element output vector (mem[0]), and
add the result to cumulative sum. That vector should already be in
cache, as the last op would put it there.

> BTW, the cleanup of the interpreter looks pretty slick.

Not finished yet :-) Look for a checkin today (if I have time).

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