[SciPy-User] Minimize many scalar functions

Hi all, I'd like to minimize hundreds of thousands of scalar valued functions. Is there a faster way than a for-loop over a def of the objective function and a call to scipy.optimize.minimize_scalar? Basically a vectorized version, where I could give a function foo and a 2D numpy array where each row is given as extra data to the objective function. Thanks, Victor Poughon