[Numpy-discussion] numpy vs numeric benchmarks (original) (raw)

Joris De Ridder joris at ster.kuleuven.be
Fri Jun 2 09:27:15 EDT 2006


On Friday 02 June 2006 14:58, Eric Jonas wrote: [EJ]: Hello! I've been using numeric for a while, and the recent list traffic [EJ]: prompted me to finally migrate all my old code. On a whim, we were [EJ]: benchmarking numpy vs numeric and have been lead to the conclusion that [EJ]: numpy is at least 50x slower; a 1000x1000 matmul takes 16 sec in numpy [EJ]: but 300 ms in numeric.

You mean the other way around?

I also tested numpy vs numarray, and numarray seems to be roughly 3 times faster than numpy for your particular testcase.

J.

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