ANN: Release of NumPy 0.9.5

[vinjvinj]

I use Numeric extensivly and have been thinking of migrating to Numpy.
I have a couple of questions:

1. Will the speed of creating new arrays, copying new arrays and
slicing new arrays be similar  to Numeric?
2. I have some pyrex code that uses Numeric header files. will they be
compatible with numpy?
3. I use they following tow functions from scipy.core: extract, insert.
Are there similar functions in Numpy?

Thanks,

VJ