A few days ago, I was solving a bug related to sympy.utilities.lamdify module and in its documentation I found a small paragraph about the numExpr module. So, I started exploring it.
Brief Description
According to its documentation:
NumExpr is a fast numerical expression evaluator for NumPy. With it, expressions that operate on arrays (like
'3*a+4*b') are accelerated and use less memory than doing the same calculation in Python.In addition, its multi-threaded capabilities can make use of all cores — which generally results in substantial performance scaling compared to NumPy.
Last but not least, numexpr can make use of Intel’s VML (Vector Math Library, normally integrated in its Math Kernel Library, or MKL). This allows further acceleration of transcendent expressions. details
Usage
In their documentation they also provided some example which can be seen here:
Comparision
But I further took these example and did time comparison for operation by using numpy and numexpr:
It can be seen that Numexpr has greatly improved the performance of the numpy operation.
