On 11/25/2010 5:55 AM, Jean-Luc Menut wrote:
> it was just a test to compare the speed of
> the cosine function in IDL and numpy
The point others are trying to make is that
you *instead* tested the speed of creation
of a certain object type. To test the *function*
speeds, feed both large arrays.
>>> type(0.5)
<type 'float'>
>>> type(math.cos(0.5))
<type 'float'>
>>> type(np.cos(0.5))
<type 'numpy.float64'>
hth,
Alan Isaac
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