[Numpy-discussion] Unnecessarily bad performance of elementwise operators with Fortran-arrays

[Hans Meine]

On Donnerstag 08 November 2007, Christopher Barker wrote:
> This discussion makes me wonder if the basic element-wise operations
> could (should?) be special cased for contiguous arrays, reducing them to
>   simple pointer incrementing from the start to the finish of the data
> block. The same code would work for C and Fortran order arrays, and be
> pretty simple.

This is exactly what I am thinking and talking about.  I did not want to imply 
that NumPy is bad because it does not yet do so - it's an impressive piece of 
well-designed software AFAICS - but I do think that this is a really common 
and important use case that should not stay as inefficiently handled as it is 
now.

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