Re: [Numpy-discussion] avoiding the matrix copy performance hit

[Bill B. <wb...@gm...>]

On 2/14/06, Tim Hochberg <tim...@co...> wrote:
>
> Bill Baxter wrote:
>
> > *Copying all the data of the input array seems wasteful when the array
> > is just going to go out of scope.  Or is this not something to be
> > concerned about?
>
> You could try using copy=3DFalse:


Lovely.  That does the trick.  And the syntax isn't so bad after defining a
little helper like:

   def matr(a): return mat(a,copy=3DFalse)


>>> t1.timeit(100)
> 3.6538127052460578
> >>> t2.timeit(100)
> 3.6567186611706237
>
> I'd also like to point out that your computer appears to be much faster
> than mine.



Duly noted.  :-)


-tim



--Bill