[Pandas-dev] Rewriting some of internals of pandas in C/C++? / Roadmap

[Stephan Hoyer]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmckinn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to be clear on my stance re: pushing more code upstream into
> array libraries: if we introduce the right level of coupling /
> abstraction between pandas and NumPy/DyND, it will be much easier for
> us to use libpandas as a staging area for code that we are proposing
> to push upstream into one of those libraries. That's not really
> possible right now because pandas's internals are not easily portable
> to other C/C++ codebases (being written in a mix of pure Python and
> Cython).


Yep, also agreed. I think DyND is probably a better target than NumPy here,
if only because it's also written in C++. NumPy, of course, has been a
beast to extend.
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