[Numpy-discussion] avoiding the matrix copy performance hit
Ed Schofield
schofield at ftw.at
Wed Feb 15 02:32:02 EST 2006
Travis Oliphant wrote:
> I think I originally tried to make mat *not* return a copy, but this
> actually broke code in SciPy. So, I left the default as it was as a
> copy on input. There is an *asmatrix* command that does not return a
> copy...
All SciPy's unit tests actually pass with a default of copy=False in the
matrix constructor. So SciPy needn't be the blocker here. I'd like to
cast a vote for not copying by default, in the interests of efficiency
and, as Bill Baxter argued, usefulness.
-- Ed
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