On Tue, Oct 26, 2021 at 9:20 PM bas van beek <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > > > The subject of `MachAr` recently came up in > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/20132 and > > an earlier community meeting, more notably: it’s questionably role as > public (and even private?) API. > > > > Ever since the introduction of hard-coded `finfo` parameters back in > numpy/numpy#8504 there has > > been progressively less need for computing machine parameters during > runtime, to the point where > > `MachAr` is effectively unused in the numpy codebase itself[1]. From a > user-API point of view, the main > > difference between ` finfo` and `MachAr` these days is that the latter > produces the same results roughly > > 4 orders of magnitude slower than the former… > > > > Are there any thoughts about deprecating it? > For the record: we discussed this in the community meeting two weeks ago, and everyone seemed fine with or in favor of deprecating MachAr. Cheers, Ralf > > Regards, Bas > > > > [1] It’s still used as fallback for `longdouble` types with unknown > bytes-representations, > > rare cases that probably deserve their own pull request. > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/numpy-discussion.python.org/ > Member address: [email protected] >
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