On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 08:28:36AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote: > Thanks. > > Your version seems much more elegant I thought you were benchamrking pythran :-) > def sqrv(x): > Â Â Â Â return x * x > > I didn't know pythran would produce an element-wise iteration over the whole > array from this code. That's valid numpy, nothing specific to Pythran.