[Numpy-discussion] NA masks in the next numpy release?

[Stéfan van der Walt]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Charles R Harris
<charlesr.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
> Memory use is a known problem. One way to start addressing it might be to
> implement a "bit" arraytype. It might even be possible to prototype that on
> top of the existing types. Views make bit arrays a bit more interesting ;)

Since 1/8 can be represented exactly in floating point, I guess it's
technically possible to support non-integer strides?

Stéfan