I was a bit surprised to discover that both meshgrid nor mgrid return fully instantiated arrays, when simple broadcasting (ie with stride=0 for other axes) is functionally identical and happens much, much faster.
I wrote my own function to do this: def broadcast_mgrid(arrays): shape = tuple(map(len, arrays)) ndim = len(shape) result = [] for i, arr in enumerate(arrays, start=1): reshaped = np.broadcast_to(arr[[...] + [np.newaxis] * (ndim - i)], shape) result.append(reshaped) return result For even a modest-sized 512 x 512 grid, this version is close to 100x faster: In [154]: %timeit th.broadcast_mgrid((np.arange(512), np.arange(512))) 10000 loops, best of 3: 25.9 µs per loop In [156]: %timeit np.meshgrid(np.arange(512), np.arange(512)) 100 loops, best of 3: 2.02 ms per loop In [157]: %timeit np.mgrid[:512, :512] 100 loops, best of 3: 4.84 ms per loop Is there a conscious design decision as to why this isn’t what meshgrid/mgrid do already? Or would a PR be welcome to do this? Thanks, Juan.
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