On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Gnata Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok fine. Fine but in a few months quadcores will be "cheap". Using > numpy, I now I never get the best performances on a multicores machine > and I do not care. I just get the best > performance/time_needed_to_code_that ratio, by far, and that is why IMHO > numpy is great :). The problem is that on a multicore machine, this > ratio is not that high because there is no way to perform s = sum(A) in > a "maybe-sub-obtimal but not nonocore" way. Sublinear scaling (let say > real life scaling) will always be better that nothing. Please, by all means go for it. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion