On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 1:30 PM, David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I am in favor of at least trying this out. We will have to have a set > > of benchmarks to make sure we haven't hurt the current uses of > > PyMemData_RENEW which Tim points out. > > What would be a good stress test for PyArray_FromIter ? I think using > array iterator was the main hotspot for reading large arff files in > scipy.io.arff, would that be enough ?
Since there are only 6 places where PyMemData_RENEW is used, all 6 uses should be benchmarked. I would prefer a more targeted benchmark so we know exactly what we are measuring. -- 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
