[Numpy-discussion] Remove bento from numpy

[Julian Taylor]

On 05.07.2014 11:02, Ralf Gommers wrote:
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> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:44 AM, David Cournapeau <cournape at gmail.com
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>     On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 5:23 PM, Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at gmail.com
>     <mailto:ralf.gommers at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>         On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 10:13 AM, David Cournapeau
>         <cournape at gmail.com <mailto:cournape at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>             On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Charles R Harris
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>                 Ralf likes the speed of bento, but it is not currently
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>             What exactly is not maintained ?
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>         The issue is that Julian made some slightly nontrivial changes
>         to core/setup.py and didn't want to update core/bscript. No one
>         else has taken the time either to make those changes. That
>         didn't bother me enough yet to go fix it, because they're all
>         optional features and using Bento builds works just fine at the
>         moment (and is part of the Travis CI test runs, so it'll keep
>         working).
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>     What are those changes?
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> Comment in bscript:
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>     # TODO: add OPTIONAL_HEADERS, OPTIONAL_INTRINSICS and
>     # OPTIONAL_GCC_ATTRIBUTES (see setup.py and gh-3766).  These are
>     # performance optimizations for GCC.
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> Plus the changes in https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/4692, that
> apparently weren't documented in bscript as TODO.
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+ bento builds in debug mode which is could be slower because I
sprinkled asserts in lots of places