[Numpy-discussion] Optionally using Numeric in another compiled extension package.
Todd Miller
jmiller at stsci.edu
Wed Jan 15 12:40:02 EST 2003
Francesc Alted wrote:
>A Dimecres 15 Gener 2003 21:16, Todd Miller va escriure:
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>>But... It's not clear to me that knowing an object is an array will
>>help since getting data elements still has to be done fast, and that
>>seems hard to do without knowing the arrayobject struct. Keep in mind
>>that Numeric and numarray arrays are strided and possibly discontiguous,
>> so there's more to data access than owning a base pointer, as would be
>>the case in C.
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>I think you can use the numarray High-Level C API to overcome these
>dificulties.
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But doesn't using the numarray C-API require a level of coupling
(direct knowledge of numarray during compilation) that Chris is trying
to avoid?
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Todd
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