Hi... True... But maybe in NumPy arrays that would be more feasible...?
Cheers. Hugo Ferreira Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch escreveu: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bytter wrote: > > > Is there any I&D ongoing about using SIMD [1] instructions, like SSE > > [2], to speed up Python, especially regarding functional features, > > like list comprehension, map and reduce, etc.. ? > > SIMD instruction sets know about "low level" data types, Python is about > objects. `map()`, `reduce()`, list comprehension work on arbitrary > iterables so how do you expect SIMD instructions handle this? Even simple > lists contain objects and those don't have to be of the same type. > > Ciao, > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
