[Numpy-discussion] testing with amd libm/acml

[Chris Barker]

On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would you expect numexpr without MKL to give a significant boost?

It can, depending on the use case:
 -- It can remove a lot of uneccessary temporary creation.
 -- IIUC, it works on blocks of data at a time, and thus can keep
things in cache more when working with large data sets.
  -- It can (optionally) use multiple threads for easy parallelization.

All you can do is try it on your use-case and see what you get. It's a
pretty light lift to try.

-Chris






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