On 1/30/2009 3:22 PM, Neal Becker wrote: > Now what would be _really_ cool is a special array type that would represent > a constant array without wasting memory.
Which again is a special case of something even cooler: lazy evaluation. This would require arrays to have immutable buffers. Then an expression like "a*x + y" would result in a symbolic representation of a * x.buffer + y.buffer Then the array could evaluate itself (it could even numexpr or a JIT compiler) when needed. The scheme would be very fragile and complicated if arrays were allowed to have immutable data buffers like those of numpy. Sturla Molden _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
