On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 10:36, Keith Goodman <kwgood...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Erik Rigtorp <e...@rigtorp.com> wrote: > >> It's only a view of the array, no copying is done. Though some >> operations like np.std() will copy the array, but that's more of a >> bug. In general It's hard to imagine any speedup gains by copying a >> 10GB array. > > I don't think that np.std makes a copy of the input data if the input > is an array. If the input is, for example, a list, then an array is > created.
When I tried it on a big array, it tried to allocate a huge amount of memory. As I said it's probably a bug. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
