Christopher Barker wrote: >>Now, it is exposed in the concept of an array iterator. Anybody >>can take advantage of it as it there is a C-API call to get an array >>iterator from the array >> >> > >Is this iterator as efficient as incrementing the index for contiguous >arrays? i.e. is there any point of special casing contiguous arrays if >you use it? > > Contiguous arrays are special-cased already (as are 1-d arrays), so not really. There is a little-bit of overhead in testing for the special-case that you can overcome by testing for the special-case outside the looping structure on your own.
I'm not sure how much speed gain is accomplished doing that. -Travis _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
