[Numpy-discussion] strange sin/cos performance

[Andrew Friedley]

Emmanuelle Gouillart wrote:
> 	Hi Andrew,
> 
> 	%timeit is an Ipython magic command that uses the timeit module,
> see
> http://ipython.scipy.org/doc/stable/html/interactive/reference.html?highlight=timeit
> for more information about how to use it. So you were right to suppose
> that it is not a "normal Python".

Thanks for the pointer, I'm not familiar with IPython at all, will check 
it out.


> 	However, I was not able to reproduce your observations.
> 
>>>> import numpy as np
>>>> a = np.arange(0.0, 1000, (2 * 3.14159) / 1000, dtype=np.float32)
>>>> b = np.arange(0.0, 1000, (2 * 3.14159) / 1000, dtype=np.float64)
>>>> %timeit -n 10 np.sin(a)
> 10 loops, best of 3: 8.67 ms per loop
>>>> %timeit -n 10 np.sin(b)
> 10 loops, best of 3: 9.29 ms per loop

OK, I'm curious, what OS/Python/Numpy are you using?

Andrew