On Sa, 2014-07-26 at 15:38 +0200, Eelco Hoogendoorn wrote:
> I was wondering the same thing. Are there any known tradeoffs to this
> method of reduction?
> 

Yes, it is much more complicated and incompatible with naive ufuncs if
you want your memory access to be optimized. And optimizing that is very
much worth it speed wise...

- Sebastian

> 
> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Sturla Molden
> <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>         Sebastian Berg <sebast...@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
>         
>         > chose more stable algorithms for such statistical functions.
>         The
>         > pairwise summation that is in master now is very awesome,
>         but it is not
>         > secure enough in the sense that a new user will have
>         difficulty
>         > understanding when he can be sure it is used.
>         
>         
>         Why is it not always used?
>         
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