this is true. but not nearly as good of a learning experience :) I'm a mechanical engineer, so all of this computer science stuff is really new and interesting to me. So i'm trying my best to get a handle on exactly what is going on behind the scenes.
Chris On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 12:36 PM, David Cournapeau < da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: > Chris Colbert wrote: > > forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't installing atlas from the > > repositories defeat the purpose of installing atlas at all, since the > > build process optimizes it to your own cpu timings? > > Yes and no. Yes, it will be slower than a cutom-build atlas, but it will > be reasonably faster than blas/lapack. Please also keep in mind that > this mostly matters for linear algebra and big matrices. > > Thinking from another POV: how many 1000x1000 matrices could have you > inverted while wasting your time on this already :) > > cheers, > > David > _______________________________________________ > Numpy-discussion mailing list > Numpy-discussion@scipy.org > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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