Upper memory limit

[holger krekel]

Siegfried Gonzi wrote:
> Fernando Pérez wrote:
> 
> > You may find it 'very readable (and often better in style than Numeric's
> > idiosyncrasy)' but in many cases the above is about the worst possible way of
> > dealing with a Numeric array you could come up with. What you call 'Numeric's
> > idiosyncrasy' has a very good reason for being the way it is: when you work
> > with Numeric arrays as single entities and apply functions to them as a
> > whole, you gain the _massive_ advantage of looping being done in C instead of
> > Python. This can make a difference of one or two orders of magnitude in
> > execution time.
> > 
> > I personally can't stand windows and consider Linux a zillion times better as
> > an environment for scientific computing, but in this particular case I can't
> > guarantee that your memory problems will go away in Linux.
> 
> 
> [It is clear that the erg.append() is not very effective; but in Python
> or Lisp I use another strategy for programming]. Note: the first 2
> function calls take only 20 minutes! Btw.: After 6 hours, my calculation
> on my laptop has just finished.
> 
> Btw. I will prepare you a place in heaven if you can tell me whether
> there is an option to set a default path. For example, I have
> successfully installed Python in:
> 
> /home/gonzi/Python-2.2.1/...
> 
> and my Numeric-21.0 resides in:
> 
> /home/gonzi/Python-2.2.1/Numeric-21.0
> 
> 
> but after trying to install the Numeric stuff::
> 
> python setup.py install
 ^^^^^^^^

are you sure that this points to *your* installation?

    holger