[BioPython] numeric vs numarray

[Simon Burton]

Ivan Rossi wrote:

>
> People I trust did some comparison between numeric and numarray and 
> told me that, despite its claim Numarray is much much slower than 
> numeric even on large matrices (10kx10k), even by an order of 
> magnitude. So they plan to stay with numeric for a long time to come.
>
> Any other evidence in favor or against numarray from people in the list?
>

There is a discussion about this issue (with some benchmarks) right now 
on numpy-discussion:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6274118&forum_id=4890

My current employer has decided to go with numarray for a new 
statistical machine learning project. We hope to contribute to work in 
improving numarray performance, as needed.

bye,

Simon.

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