[Numpy-discussion] ufunc for sum of squared difference

[eat]

Yeah,

but it's not so obvious what's happening "under the hoods". Consider this
(with an old Win7 machine):
Python 3.5.2 (v3.5.2:4def2a2901a5, Jun 25 2016, 22:18:55) [MSC v.1900 64
bit (AMD64)]
np.__version__
'1.11.1'

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 10:38 AM, Jerome Kieffer <Jerome.Kieffer at esrf.fr>
wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:25:58 -0500
> Matthew Harrigan <harrigan.matthew at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I started a ufunc to compute the sum of square differences here
> > <https://gist.github.com/mattharrigan/6f678b3d6df5efd236fc23bfb59fd3bd>.
> > It is about 4x faster and uses half the memory compared to
> > np.sum(np.square(x-c)).
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> Using *blas* you win already a factor two (maybe more depending on you
> blas implementation):
>
> % python -m timeit -s "import numpy as np;x=np.linspace(0,1,int(1e7))"
> "np.sum(np.square(x-2.))"
> 10 loops, best of 3: 135 msec per loop
>
> % python -m timeit -s "import numpy as np;x=np.linspace(0,1,int(1e7))"
> "y=x-2.;np.dot(y,y)"
> 10 loops, best of 3: 70.2 msec per loop
>
x= np.linspace(0, 1, int(1e6))

timeit np.sum(np.square(x- 2.))
10 loops, best of 3: 23 ms per loop

y= x- 2.

timeit np.dot(y, y)
The slowest run took 18.60 times longer than the fastest. This could mean
that an intermediate result is being cached.
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.78 ms per loop

timeit np.dot(y, y)
1000 loops, best of 3: 1.73 ms per loop

Best,
eat

>
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Jérôme Kieffer
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