[SciPy-user] Scipy/Numeric slow under Debian?
Greg Novak
novak at ucolick.org
Fri Aug 19 02:56:12 EDT 2005
I recently had trouble getting Scipy to work under Fedora 4, and this
drove me to try Debian. Now, apt-get python-scipy gets me going just
fine, but it seems rather... slow. Code seems to run about a factor of 10
slower than when I had Scipy running under Fedora 3.
I'm using Debian stable on a dual Intel Xeon 2.8 Ghz. The version of
scipy that I got when I installed through apt was 0.3.2. The slow code is
heavy on Numeric calls like argsort and cumsum, without much linear
algebra. It seems to me that the culprit could be:
1) Compiler optimization
2) instruction set (i386 vs. i686)
3) kernel version (2.4 vs 2.6)
4) Some obscure hardware problem, like Debian isn't using some fancy
memory-bandwidth enhancing feature that Fedora did (pure conjecture).
All of the above seem unlikely to account for a factor of 10 speed
difference. Any insight about what's going on would be much
appreciated...
Thanks,
Greg
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