Re: [Numpy-discussion] experiments with SSE vectorization

2013-05-16 Thread Nathaniel Smith
On 17 May 2013 05:19, "Christopher Jordan-Squire" wrote: > > I'd been under the impression that the easiest way to get SSE support > was to have numpy use an optimized blas/lapack. Is that not the case? Apples and oranges. That's the easiest (only) way to get SSE support for operations that go th

Re: [Numpy-discussion] experiments with SSE vectorization

2013-05-16 Thread Christopher Jordan-Squire
I'd been under the impression that the easiest way to get SSE support was to have numpy use an optimized blas/lapack. Is that not the case? On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 10:42 AM, Julian Taylor wrote: > Hi, > I have been experimenting a bit with how applicable SSE vectorization is > to NumPy. > In prin

[Numpy-discussion] experiments with SSE vectorization

2013-05-16 Thread Julian Taylor
Hi, I have been experimenting a bit with how applicable SSE vectorization is to NumPy. In principle the core of NumPy mostly deals with memory bound operations, but it turns out on modern machines with large caches you can still get decent speed ups. The experiments are available on this fork: htt