Re: ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-18 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
vinjvinj wrote: > I read some of the earlier threads which essentially said that numpy is > about 3-4 times slower then Numeric for smaller arrays. I'm assuming > that applies only to operations that apply to the whole arrays. > > I was curious how the performance of the following operations would

Re: ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-17 Thread vinjvinj
I read some of the earlier threads which essentially said that numpy is about 3-4 times slower then Numeric for smaller arrays. I'm assuming that applies only to operations that apply to the whole arrays. I was curious how the performance of the following operations would compare though: 1. Copyin

Re: ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Kern
vinjvinj wrote: > I use Numeric extensivly and have been thinking of migrating to Numpy. > I have a couple of questions: > > 1. Will the speed of creating new arrays, copying new arrays and > slicing new arrays be similar to Numeric? Various benchmark comparisons with Numeric and numarray have b

Re: ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-17 Thread vinjvinj
I use Numeric extensivly and have been thinking of migrating to Numpy. I have a couple of questions: 1. Will the speed of creating new arrays, copying new arrays and slicing new arrays be similar to Numeric? 2. I have some pyrex code that uses Numeric header files. will they be compatible with nu

Re: ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-17 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
Thomas Gellekum wrote: > "Travis E. Oliphant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> - Improvements to numpy.distutils > > > Stupid questions: is it really necessary to keep your own copy of > distutils and even install it? What's wrong with the version in the > Python distribution? How can I dis