Re: [Numpy-discussion] seeking advice on a fast string->array conversion

Tue, 16 Nov 2010 09:20:29 -0500, Darren Dale wrote: [clip]

module. So I am wondering about the performance of np.fromstring:

Fromstring is slow, probably because it must work around locale- dependence of the underlying C parsing functions. Moreover, the Numpy parsing mechanism generates many indirect calls.