On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Gary Strangman <str...@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu > wrote:
> > >> I wonder if that might be handled as a scikits-image extension, rather > >> than core numpy? > > > > I think Stefan and Nathaniel and Gary Strangman and others are saying > > we don't want to pay the price of a large memory hike for masking. I > > suspect that Nathaniel is right, and that a large majority of those of > > us who want 'missing data' functionality, also want what we've called > > ABSENT missing values, and care about memory. > > FWIW, Matthew correctly interprets my concerns. I also have very large > non-image datasets, so pushing the problem into a more custom extension > (esp. one focused on images) doesn't help me much. > > -best > Gary > > I would wonder if the masks could benefit from the approach used for the "carray" (compressed arrays) project? Ben Root
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