> Downloading, installing, and getting to know numerical modules for > Python is mext on my list :). However, I was under the impression that > Numarray is preferred to Numeric -- is that correct? Are these two > competing packages? (Hopefully this is not flame war bait...)
Numeric's dot uses, if the appropriate libraries are installed, processor-tuned code (it tries to load blas, and an attempt to load blas will load atlas if present). Last time I checked numarray did not, and so Numeric's dot is (or was) faster than numarray's dot by an order of magnitude (and more, as the size of the array grew). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
