On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Emmanuel Bengio <bengioe@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,

I have a list of 4x4 transformation matrices, that I want to "dot with" another list of the same size (elementwise).
Making a for loop that calculates the dot product of each is extremely slow,
I thought that maybe it's due to the fact that I have thousands of matrices and it's a python for loop and there's a high Python overhead.

I do something like this:
>> for a,b in izip(Rot,Trans):
>>     c.append(numpy.dot(a,b))

Is there a way to do this in one instruction?
Or is there a way to do this all using weave.inline?


Yes, there is a trick for this using a multiply with properly placed newaxis followed by a sum. It uses more memory but for stacks of small arrays that shouldn't matter. See the post here

Chuck