On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:40:53PM -0500, Travis Oliphant wrote: > > The objectors object to any binary ABI change, but not specifically > > three pointers rather than two or one?
> Adding pointers is not really an ABI change (but removing them after > they were there would be...) It's really just the addition of data to > the NumPy array structure that they aren't going to use. Most of the > time it would not be a real problem (the number of use-cases where you > have a lot of small NumPy arrays is small), but when it is a problem it > is very annoying. I think that something that the numpy community must be very careful about is ABI breakage. At the scale of a large and heavy institution, it is very costly. In my mind, this is the argument that should guide the discussion: does going one way of the other (removing NA or not) will lead us likely into ABI breakage ? My 2 cents, Gaël _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
