[SciPy-dev] Ball Tree code (ticket 1048)

[Sturla Molden]

Anne Archibald skrev:
 >
 > * The code is specific to Euclidean distances.

I was wondering if we should try to loop-unroll minkowski distances in 
cKDTree? Right now it does a lot of wasteful for work for common cases 
like Euclidian distances.

I think this version should be rather friendly to autovectorizing 
compilers. It's easy to change the hard-coded values of k and p by 
editing minkowski.py.

Also, absolute values are computed by zeroing the sign bit, which is 
much faster.

Sturla Molden
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