[Numpy-discussion] Pairwise summation

Keith Goodman kwgoodman at gmail.com
Mon Jan 7 15:15:42 EST 2019


Numpy uses pairwise summation along the fast axis if that axis contains no
more than 8192 elements. How was 8192 chosen?

Doubling to 16384 would result in a lot more function call overhead due to
the recursion. Is it a speed issue? Memory? Or something else entirely?
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