Re: SIMD powered Python

2007-06-23 Thread Paul Rubin
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > True... But maybe in NumPy arrays that would be more feasible...? > > Yes but that's in external libraries and not in the Python interpreter. > So it won't speed up Python code like list comprehensions but "just" calls > to external function

Re: SIMD powered Python

2007-06-23 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bytter wrote: > Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch escreveu: >> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bytter wrote: >> >> > Is there any I&D ongoing about using SIMD [1] instructions, like SSE >> > [2], to speed up Python, especially regarding functional features, >> > like list comprehension, map

Re: SIMD powered Python

2007-06-23 Thread Bytter
Hi... True... But maybe in NumPy arrays that would be more feasible...? Cheers. Hugo Ferreira Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch escreveu: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bytter wrote: > > > Is there any I&D ongoing about using SIMD [1] instructions, like SSE > > [2], to speed up Python, especially regarding f

Re: SIMD powered Python

2007-06-23 Thread Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bytter wrote: > Is there any I&D ongoing about using SIMD [1] instructions, like SSE > [2], to speed up Python, especially regarding functional features, > like list comprehension, map and reduce, etc.. ? SIMD instruction sets know about "low level" data types, Python is a

SIMD powered Python

2007-06-22 Thread Bytter
Hi! Is there any I&D ongoing about using SIMD [1] instructions, like SSE [2], to speed up Python, especially regarding functional features, like list comprehension, map and reduce, etc.. ? Best regards, Hugo Ferreira -- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Str

SIMD powered Python

2007-06-22 Thread Hugo Ferreira
Hi! Is there any I&D ongoing about using SIMD [1] instructions, like SSE [2], to speed up Python, especially regarding functional features, like list comprehension, map and reduce, etc.. ? Best regards, Hugo Ferreira -- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMD [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St