Re: ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-18 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
vinjvinj wrote: > I read some of the earlier threads which essentially said that numpy is > about 3-4 times slower then Numeric for smaller arrays. I'm assuming > that applies only to operations that apply to the whole arrays. > > I was curious how the performance of the following operations would

Re: ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-17 Thread vinjvinj
I read some of the earlier threads which essentially said that numpy is about 3-4 times slower then Numeric for smaller arrays. I'm assuming that applies only to operations that apply to the whole arrays. I was curious how the performance of the following operations would compare though: 1. Copyin

Re: ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-17 Thread Robert Kern
vinjvinj wrote: > I use Numeric extensivly and have been thinking of migrating to Numpy. > I have a couple of questions: > > 1. Will the speed of creating new arrays, copying new arrays and > slicing new arrays be similar to Numeric? Various benchmark comparisons with Numeric and numarray have b

Re: ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-17 Thread vinjvinj
I use Numeric extensivly and have been thinking of migrating to Numpy. I have a couple of questions: 1. Will the speed of creating new arrays, copying new arrays and slicing new arrays be similar to Numeric? 2. I have some pyrex code that uses Numeric header files. will they be compatible with nu

Re: ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-17 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
Thomas Gellekum wrote: > "Travis E. Oliphant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> - Improvements to numpy.distutils > > > Stupid questions: is it really necessary to keep your own copy of > distutils and even install it? What's wrong with the version in the > Python distribution? How can I dis

ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

2006-02-16 Thread Travis E. Oliphant
NumPy is the successor to both Numeric and Numarray. It builds from and uses code from both. More information can be found at the following links http://numeric.scipy.org http://www.scipy.org http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1369&package_id=175103 Highlights of Release: