We used to care about memory when we were running on 32-bit platforms, but with the move to 64-bit, enabled by the current work, the issue is removed and I will probably be changing everything for more accuracy.
Thanks Hanni 2008/9/3 David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hanni Ali wrote: > > Understood, but I would generally be more concerned with accuracy than > > memory? > > It is a tradeof: you can choose accuracy if you want, but by using > float32, you are already kind of hinting that you care about memory and > speed (otherwise, why not using double, which is the default dtype for > almost everything in numpy ?) > > cheers, > > David > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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