On Mar 11, 2012, at 1:59 AM, Mic wrote:
> what is the difference to http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3146/ ?
>
To fully expound the difference would take a lot of discussion. But,
summarizing:
* Numba is not nearly as ambitious as US (Numba will be fine with some
user-directed information and with a subset of the language that gets compiled)
* Numba will focus on compilation rather than JITing --- in other words
it won't be trying to detect hot-spots and compile segments (actually LLVM is
not a good candidate for that sort of thing as it is not a very fast or
memory-efficient compiler for a lot of reasons, I believe this is why PyPy
does not use it anymore, for example).
* Numba will be much closer to Cython in spirit than Unladen Swallow
(or PyPy) --- people who just use Cython for a loop or two will be able to use
Numba instead
* Numba will borrow the idea of call-sites from IronPython wherein a
function is replaced by a generic function that dispatches based on input types
to either cached compiled code for the types specified or the generic function.
* Numba will be mainly about trying to leverage the code-generation of
LLVM which multiple hardware manufacturers are using (Intel's OpenCL support,
Nvidia's PTX backend, Apple's CLang, etc.) for NumPy arrays
-Travis
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