2013/8/24 Lars Buitinck <l.j.buiti...@uva.nl>
> 2013/8/24 Peter Prettenhofer <peter.prettenho...@gmail.com>:
> > can anybody help me understand why the output of the following code
> snippet
> > is different depending on 32bit or 64bit architecture::
> >
> > x = np.empty((10 ** 6,), dtype=np.float64)
> > x.fill(1e-9)
> > hash(x.mean())
> >
> > on 64bit I get: 2475364768
> > on 32bit I get: -1839780448
> >
> > I expected that given you set an explicit dtype the result would be
> equal on
> > whatever architecture.
>
> Is that Python's built-in hash function? That's not even guaranteed to
> be consistent between runs of the same Python interpreter on the same
> machine.
>
yes - I used the builtin hash to show its different (if you print the
floating point you can see the difference as well).
If hash would not be consistent than pickling dicts would not be a good
idea... ?
>
> > Even worse when I do the following::
> >
> > np.sum(x)
> >
> > I too get different results but when I do::
> >
> > sum(x)
> >
> > I get equal results... could it be that the temporary variables that
> numpy
> > uses in this routines are platform dependent or am I missing something
> here.
>
> How unequal? IIRC, x86 processors do all computations using 80-bit
> floating point numbers internally, and amd64 (x86-64) uses 128-bit.
>
on 32bit machine:
In [6]: print('%.16f' % sum(x))
0.0010000000000082
In [7]: print('%.16f' % np.sum(x))
0.0010000000000000
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> University of Amsterdam
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