[Numpy-discussion] performance issue (again)

[josef.pktd at gmail.com]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Mathew Yeates <myeates at jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:

> Hi
> I posted something about this earlier
>
> Say I have 2 arrays X and Y with shapes (N,3) where N is large
> I am doing the following
>
> for row in range(N):
>    result=polyfit(X[row,:],Y[row,:],1,full=True) # fit 3 points with a line
>
> This takes forever and I was hoping to find a way to speed things up.
> But now I'm starting to wonder if this pointless. If the routine "poly
> fit takes a  long time, when compared with the time for a Python
> function call, then things can't be sped up.
>
>
ols with one regressor and 3 observations takes no time to calculate, I
think you  have (almost) only setup cost.

Josef
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