2012/10/30 Gael Varoquaux <[email protected]>: > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 05:05:11PM -0400, David Warde-Farley wrote: >> Comment from the peanut gallery: this seems like a supremely odd >> function to have, since int32s cannot be safely represented in 32-bit >> floating point anyway (nor int64s in float64, but there's not much you >> can do about it without resorting to software arithmetic). In most >> cases, I would think float64 should be preferred. > > We got complaints from users that had their data in 32 bit to save > memory, and got it converted in 64bit. > > Now whether that logic should be applied to ints or only to floats is a > valid question.
Agree with David, int->float conversion should be expected to produce larger arrays. -- Lars Buitinck Scientific programmer, ILPS University of Amsterdam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Scikit-learn-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scikit-learn-general
