On Feb 23, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > Is mkl only used for linear algebra? Will it speed up e.g., elementwise > transendental functions?
Yes, MKL comes with VML that has this type of optimizations: http://software.intel.com/sites/products/documentation/hpc/mkl/vml/vmldata.htm Also, see some speedups in a numexpr linked against MKL here: http://code.google.com/p/numexpr/wiki/NumexprVML See also how native multi-threading implementation in numexpr beats MKL's one (at least for this particular example). -- Francesc Alted _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
