Re: [Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-30 Thread Stéfan van der Walt
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 6:20 AM, Anubhab Baksi wrote: > I need to deal with nearly 2**19 or 2**20 arrays of length about 250 each. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread: what does "deal" mean. You may be better off with something like: http://kwant-project.org/tinyarray/ Stéfan ___

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-29 Thread Anubhab Baksi
Thanks all, my client actually wants the output at a minimum time. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > > if you have a reasonably large amount of data (say O(100)), > > I need to deal with nearly 2**19 or 2**20 arrays of length about 250 each. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 11:30 P

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-29 Thread Benjamin Root
On Aug 29, 2013 4:11 PM, "Jonathan T. Niehof" wrote: > > On 08/29/2013 01:48 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > > > Thanks. I had read that quite differently, and I'm sure I'm not the only > > one. Some context would have helped > > My apologies--that was a rather obtuse reference. > Just for future r

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-29 Thread Zachary Pincus
> And as you pointed out, > most of the time for non-trivial datasets the numpy operations will be > faster. (I'm daunted by the notion of trying to do linear algebra on > lists of tuples, assuming that's the relevant set of operations given > the comparison to the matrix class.) Note the impo

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-29 Thread Jonathan T. Niehof
On 08/29/2013 01:48 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > Thanks. I had read that quite differently, and I'm sure I'm not the only > one. Some context would have helped My apologies--that was a rather obtuse reference. In my oddly-wired brain it struck me as a fairly similar, suboptimally-posed questio

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-29 Thread Alan G Isaac
On 8/29/2013 3:48 PM, Ralf Gommers wrote: > Some context would have helped. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2R3FvS4xr4 fwiw, Alan ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Eric Moore wrote: > > > African or European? > > > > > > Why on earth would you ask that? > > > > > > Its a Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference. Thanks. I had read that quite differently, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Some context would have helpe

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-29 Thread Eric Moore
> African or European? > > > Why on earth would you ask that? > > Its a Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference. Eric ___ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-29 Thread Ralf Gommers
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:41 PM, Jonathan T. Niehof wrote: > On 08/29/2013 09:33 AM, Anubhab Baksi wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to know about the relative speed (i.e., which one is faster) of > > the followings: > > 1. list and numpy array, tuples and numpy array > > 2. list of tuples and numpy matri

Re: [Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-29 Thread Jonathan T. Niehof
On 08/29/2013 09:33 AM, Anubhab Baksi wrote: > Hi, > I need to know about the relative speed (i.e., which one is faster) of > the followings: > 1. list and numpy array, tuples and numpy array > 2. list of tuples and numpy matrix (first one is rectangular) > 3. random.randint() and numpy.random.rand

[Numpy-discussion] Relative speed

2013-08-29 Thread Anubhab Baksi
Hi, I need to know about the relative speed (i.e., which one is faster) of the followings: 1. list and numpy array, tuples and numpy array 2. list of tuples and numpy matrix (first one is rectangular) 3. random.randint() and numpy.random.random_integers() Thank you. ___