Hi Scott, may I ask you which kind of vector / matrix operation in extended precision (np.longdouble) is supported in 'pint' ? It can't be backed by the underlying blas library as extended precision functions are not supported there.
Carl Am Di., 6. Dez. 2022 um 15:24 Uhr schrieb Charles R Harris < charlesr.har...@gmail.com>: > > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2022 at 9:36 AM <abhisrk...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I am interested in contributing to this. I am a contributor in the PINT >> pulsar timing package Scott mentioned. But I am new to contributing to >> numpy, and I am not sure where or how to begin. Are there beginner-level >> resources that I can look at? >> >> Regards >> >> Abhimanyu Susobhanan >> Postdoctoral fellow >> Centre for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics >> University of Wisconsin Milwaukee >> > > I think the first thing to do is have a discussion in the astropy > community. Dependence on extended precision is fragile at best, it > isn't available on all platforms and probably doesn't offer enough > precision to be future proof. Then gather some performance data. > > 1. What computations are needed? > 2. Can the computational algorithms be improved? > 3. Would parallel computation help? > 4. How much faster is extended precision? > 5. Where are the performance bottlenecks in the double-double time > type? > 6. Is there hope of improving the double-double performance. > > My own hope would be that a combination parallel computation and lower > level code for double-double would be a viable solution. > > Chuck > > > > > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- numpy-discussion@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to numpy-discussion-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ > Member address: cmkleff...@gmail.com >
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