Topic: NumPy's ufuncs will be tried to accelerate via CorePy

A GSoC student Andrew Friedley under the leadership of Christopher Mueller will try to accelerate NumPy's ufuncs with SSE and multi-core execution via the CorePy - Assembly library for Python

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Hense, I hope this will yield some speedup for OpenOpt as well.

Re: NumPy's ufuncs will be tried to accelerate via CorePy

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