On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Sebastien Binet <bi...@cern.ch> wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:47:10 -0500, Jason McCampbell > <jmccampb...@enthought.com> wrote: >> > 4) Boost has some reference counted pointers, have you looked at them? C++ >> > is admittedly a very different animal for this sort of application. >> > >> >> There is also need to replace the usage of PyDict and other uses of CPython >> for basic data structures that aren't present in C. Having access to C++ >> for this and reference counting would be nice, but has the potential to >> break builds for everyone who use the C API. I think it's worth discussing >> for the future but a bigger (and possibly more contentious) change than we >> are able to take on for this project. > > for the dict part, a probably good enough replacement could be the hash > table from: > > http://c-algorithms.sourceforge.net/
My long quest for a usable set of basic structures in C lead me to basekit. It is BSD and the code is very simple, I like it very much: http://github.com/stevedekorte/basekit It is used in the IO programming language, which is in the same ballpark as python (very dynamic ala smalltalk) and uses a GC, which means the allocation strategy used in basekit is viable for VM which do not depend on reference counting. David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
