[Numpy-discussion] Faster fill

[Travis Oliphant]

Sasha wrote:

>On the second thought, it may be better to commit experimental changes
>to a branch in svn and merge to the trunk after review.  What do you
>think?
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This is always possible.  It really depends on how significant the 
changes are.  These changes are somewhat isolated to a single bit of 
functionality (adding a new item to the function structure pointed to by 
each PyArray_Descr shouldn't change anything else). 

As long as svn compiles and passes all tests, I think it can be merged 
directly.    I see branches as being needed when a feature requires more 
testing and it is less clear how invasive the changes will be. 

In this case, I would say go ahead and apply the feature directly..

>The patch passes numpy.test(10), but I don't think it tests
>ndarray.fill in any meaningful way.  I will probably need to add some
>tests.
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Tests are always good.  In fact, it's an easy way for someone to 
contribue, since there are a lot of features I have only tested using 
examples in my book (the book examples serve as an additional set of 
tests that I regularly run).

-Travis