[BioPython] numeric vs numarray

[Ivan Rossi]

>> On Apr 7, 2004, at 12:39 AM, Brad Chapman wrote:
>>> 
>>> Numeric. Although Numarray is supposed to be API compatible to some
>>> extent with Numeric, I don't believe that anyone has fully tested
>>> that out. Numeric should work for now -- at some point in the future
>>> someone will likely go through and ensure everything works and we'll
>>> move on to Numarray.

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?

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