[SciPy-Dev] scipy.sparse versus pysparse

[Moritz Beber]

Hey,


On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 4:40 PM, nicky van foreest <vanforeest at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> I am doing some testing between scipy.sparse and pysparse on my ubuntu
> machine. Some testing reveals that pysparse is about 9 times faster in
> matrix-vector multiplication that scipy.sparse. Might there be anything
> specific I forgot to do during scipy's installation (I just ran apt-get
> install python-scipy)? Is there another simple explanation for this
> difference? I prefer to use scipy.sparse for its cleaner api, but a factor
> 9 in speed is considerable.
>
>
Could you post your benchmarking code somewhere (or show here), please?

Cheers,
Moritz
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