On 2008-04-18, Bob Greschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm on a Solaris 8 with Python 2.3.4 and when crunching > through, literally, millions and millions of samples of > seismic data fingers point out the difference nicely. :) I'll > look into this more on some of our bigger better faster > machines (there is no -m option for timeit on the Sun :). The > Sun is just what I develop on. If stuff runs fast enough to > keep me awake on there over an ssh'ed X11 connection it > should run even better on the real field equipment (Macs, > Linuxes, WinXPs).
If time is an issue, I might write a C program to convert the files from 24-bit numbers to 32-bit numbers. Then you can use numpy to load huge arrays of them in a single whack. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! .. he dominates the at DECADENT SUBWAY SCENE. visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list