[SciPy-dev] Sorting speed

[Travis Oliphant]

Alan G Isaac wrote:

>On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Francesc Altet apparently wrote: 
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>>numarray is roughly 5x faster than scipy_core 
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>On my computer, it seems almost all that difference is due 
>to the time difference in initializing the arrays.  (I.e.,
>much of it disappears if I put the array creation in the
>setup statement.)
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Could you show your results.  This is surprising. 

-Travis