On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 17:43, Nathan Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there was any way to speed up the global import of > numpy modules. For a simple import numpy, it takes ~250 ms. In > comparison, importing Numeric is only taking 40 ms. It appears that > even if you only import a numpy submodule, it loads all the libraries, > resulting in the painful performance hit. Are there plans to speed up > the importing of numpy,
I am not sure how much is possible. > or at least have it not load libraries that > aren't requested? At this point in time, it is too late to make such sweeping changes to the API. -- 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 [email protected] http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
