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Author	vstinner
Recipients	neologix, pitrou, rhettinger, tim.peters, vstinner
Date	2014-04-27.00:11:24
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It looks like a memory allocator with a given alignment would help numpy, for SIMD instructions: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/134092.html (but "Numpy does not currently use aligned allocation, and it's not clear how important it is") See also this old discussion on python-dev: https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-September/103911.html Related to this website: http://mallocv2.wordpress.com/

It looks like a memory allocator with a given alignment would help numpy, for SIMD instructions:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-April/134092.html
(but "Numpy does not currently use aligned allocation, and it's not clear how important it is")

See also this old discussion on python-dev:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-September/103911.html

Related to this website:
http://mallocv2.wordpress.com/

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