[Numpy-discussion] dot() performance depends on data?

Keith Goodman kwgoodman at gmail.com
Fri Sep 10 13:46:40 EDT 2010


On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Hagen Fürstenau <hagen at zhuliguan.net> wrote:
> I'm multiplying two 1000x1000 arrays with numpy.dot() and seeing
> significant performance differences depending on the data. It seems to
> take much longer on matrices with many zeros than on random ones. I
> don't know much about optimized MM implementations, but is this normal
> behavior for some reason?

I don't see a difference on my computer. Could you post an example?



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