[Numpy-discussion] Array vectorization in numpy

[Vincent Schut]

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> with "gcc -O3 -ffast-math -march=native -mfpmath=sse" optimizations
> for the C code (involving SSE2 vectorization and whatnot, looking at
> the assembler output). Numpy is already going essentially at the maximum
> speed.

As a related side question that I've been wondering myself for some time 
already: what is the preferred way to compile numpy/scipy with those gcc 
optimization flags? Afaik, numpy's setup.py is simply picking up the 
flags that my distro's python was compiled with... Would the best way be 
to recompile python myself? Or could I fine-tune the gcc options just 
for numpy/scipy somehow?

Vincent.