On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/08/2012 01:07 PM, Gael Varoquaux wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 08, 2012 at 11:28:21AM +0000, Nathaniel Smith wrote: >>> I think everyone would be very happy to see numpy.dot modified to do >>> this automatically. But adding a scipy.dot IMHO would be fixing things >>> in the wrong place and just create extra confusion. >> >> I am not sure I agree: numpy is often compiled without lapack support, as >> it is not necessary. On the other hand scipy is always compiled with >> lapack. Thus this makes more sens in scipy. > > Well, numpy.dot already contains multiple fallback cases for when it is > compiled with BLAS and not. So I'm +1 on just making this an improvement > on numpy.dot. I don't think there's a time when you would not want to > use this (provided the output order issue is fixed), and it doesn't make > sense to not have old codes take advantage of the speed improvement.
Indeed, there is no reason not to make this available in NumPy. Nicolas, can you prepare a patch for numpy ? David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
