May 7, 2014
4:12 p.m.
On 05/05/14 17:02, Francesc Alted wrote:
Well, this might be because it is the place where using several processes makes more sense. Normally, when you are reading files, the bottleneck is the I/O subsystem (at least if you don't have to convert from text to numbers), and for calculating the mean, normally the bottleneck is memory throughput.
If IDL is burning the CPU while reading a file I wouldn't call that impressive. It is certainly not something NumPy should aspire to do. Sturla