Re: [Numpy-discussion] debian benchmarks

2010-07-06 Thread Francesc Alted
A Monday 05 July 2010 15:32:51 Isaac Gouy escrigué: Sturla Molden sturla at molden.no writes: It is also the kind of tasks where NumPy would help. It would be nice to get NumPy into the shootout. At least for the sake of advertising

Re: [Numpy-discussion] debian benchmarks

2010-07-05 Thread Isaac Gouy
Sturla Molden sturla at molden.no writes: It is also the kind of tasks where NumPy would help. It would be nice to get NumPy into the shootout. At least for the sake of advertising http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=spectralnormlang=pythonid=2

Re: [Numpy-discussion] debian benchmarks

2010-07-04 Thread Sebastian Haase
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Sturla Molden stu...@molden.no wrote: I was just looking at Debian's benchmark. LuaJIT is now (on median) beating Intel Fortran! Consider that Lua is a dynamic language very similar to Python. I know it's just a benchmark but this has to count as insanely

Re: [Numpy-discussion] debian benchmarks

2010-07-04 Thread Sturla Molden
Sebastian Haase skrev: Hi Sturla, what is this even about ... ? Do you have some references ? It does indeed sound interesting ... but what kind of code / problem are they actually testing here ? http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php They are

Re: [Numpy-discussion] debian benchmarks

2010-07-04 Thread Sturla Molden
Sturla Molden skrev: http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php They are benchmarking with tasks that burns the CPU, like computing and bitmapping Mandelbrot sets and processing DNA data. It is also the kind of tasks where NumPy would help. It would

[Numpy-discussion] debian benchmarks

2010-07-03 Thread Sturla Molden
I was just looking at Debian's benchmark. LuaJIT is now (on median) beating Intel Fortran! Consider that Lua is a dynamic language very similar to Python. I know it's just a benchmark but this has to count as insanely impressive. Beating Intel Fortran with a dynamic scripting language... How