[SciPy-User] Bottleneck 0.4.1

[Keith Goodman]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 8:18 PM, Wes McKinney <wesmckinn at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Keith Goodman <kwgoodman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>>> One random question. Any idea on the long import time:
>>>>
>>>> $ time python -c "import bottleneck"
>>>>
>>>> real    0m0.712s
>>>> user    0m0.546s
>>>> sys     0m0.114s
>>>> $ time python -c "import numpy"
>>>>
>>>> real    0m0.142s
>>>> user    0m0.090s
>>>> sys     0m0.049s
>>>> $ time python -c "import scipy"
>>>>
>>>> real    0m0.201s
>>>> user    0m0.132s
>>>> sys     0m0.066s
>>>
>>> Bottleneck has many low-level functions, for example,
>>> median_2d_float64_axis0, median_2d_float64_axis1,
>>> median_2d_int32_axis0, etc, etc. Maybe that explains it? But scipy has
>>> a lot of functions too, so I don't know.
>>
>> Yeah, I thought this was odd. Initially I thought perhaps it was due
>> to the size of the DLLs. func.so and move.so but they are only 3 mb or
>> so on my machine.

...the binaries are not massive but the function count is very high.

> The timings on my machine (64-bit Ubuntu 10.10) are not quite as bad:
>
> $ time python -c "import bottleneck"
> real    0m0.192s
> user    0m0.150s
> sys     0m0.040s
>
> $ time python -c "import numpy"
> real    0m0.060s
> user    0m0.030s
> sys     0m0.030s
>
> $ time python -c "import scipy"
> real    0m0.091s
> user    0m0.040s
> sys     0m0.050s
>
> I'm interested in ways to cut the import time if anyone knows of any.
>