[SciPy-user] Speed differences in sqrt calculation: what is good to know

[Matthieu Brucher]

Hi,

Don't forget that numpy's sqrt and scipy's sqrt are not optimized towards
single computations.
If you really want to compare them, time the square root of 10000 elements.

Matthieu

2008/6/11 Ivo Maljevic <ivo.maljevic at gmail.com>:

> Based on comments from Gael Varoquaux and David Cournapeau , I did the
> execution time test.
> At least for me, it is clear that if the number is a real scalar, AND the
> expected result is also real,
> the best way is to call the math version of sqrt() function. The
> differences are more than significant, as you can see:
>
> In [3]: from math import sqrt as msqrt
> In [4]: from numpy import sqrt as nsqrt
> In [5]: from scipy import sqrt as ssqrt
>
> In [6]: %timeit msqrt(3.14)
> 1000000 loops, best of 3: 479 ns per loop
>
> In [7]: %timeit nsqrt(3.14)
> 100000 loops, best of 3: 10.8 µs per loop
>
> In [8]: %timeit ssqrt(3.14)
> 10000 loops, best of 3: 74.5 µs per loop
>
>
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