Re: [Numpy-discussion] numpy vs numeric benchmarks

[Francesc A. <fa...@ca...>]

A Divendres 02 Juny 2006 19:07, Travis Oliphant va escriure:
> Robert Kern wrote:
> > Filip Wasilewski wrote:
> >> So the next question is what's the difference between matrixmultiply a=
nd
> >> dot in NumPy?
> >
> > matrixmultiply is a deprecated compatibility name. Always use dot. dot
> > will get replaced with the optimized dotblas implementation when an
> > optimized BLAS is available. matrixmultiply will not (probably not
> > intentionally, but I'm happy with the current situation).
>
> It's true that matrixmultiply has been deprecated for some time (at
> least 8 years...)   The basic dot function gets over-written with a
> BLAS-optimized version but the matrixmultiply does not get changed.  So
> replace matrixmultiply with dot.   It wasn't an intentional thing, but
> perhaps it will finally encourage people to always use dot.

So, why not issuing a DeprecationWarning on a matrixmultiply function use?

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