[Numpy-discussion] Numeric to numarray experiences

[Stephen Walton]

On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 10:41, Raik Grünberg wrote:

> Our sysadmin noted that unlike Numeric, numarray is not using any external 
> math libraries (like LAPACK) that have been speed-optimized for decades and 
> are available in CPU-optimized variants (e.g. ATLAS). It's probably difficult 
> to match this efficiency with any new code ...

This is a key point.  Have a look at addons.py in numarray, some
previous comments on this list, and build numarray with the line

env USE_LAPACK=1 python setup.py build

after editing addons.py appropriately.  You should see a major speed
improvement.

-- 
Stephen Walton <stephen.walton at csun.edu>
Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Northridge
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