Thanks for the status update. A couple of weeks is a fine timeline to wait.
Are you envisioning that the ufuncs in NumPy would have the nativecall attribute? -- Travis Oliphant (on a mobile) 512-826-7480 On Apr 19, 2012, at 6:00 AM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/12/2012 11:51 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote: >> On 04/12/2012 11:13 PM, Travis Oliphant wrote: >>> Dag, >>> >>> Thanks for the link to your CEP. This is the first time I've seen it. >>> You probably referenced it before, but I hadn't seen it. >>> >>> That CEP seems along the lines of what I was thinking of. We can make >>> scipy follow that CEP and NumPy as well in places that it needs function >>> pointers. >>> >>> I can certainly get behind it with Numba and recommend it to SciPy (and >>> write the scipy.integrate.quad function to support it). >>> >>> Thanks for the CEP. >> >> Great. I'll pass this message on to the Cython list and see if anybody >> wants to provide input (but given the scope, it should be minor tweaks >> and easy to accommodate in whatever code you write). > > Getting back with a status update on this, the thread is still rolling > and benchmarks getting taken on the Cython list. > > I think it will take some more time. This CEP will be incredibly > important for Cython, e.g. if NumPy starts supporting it then > > from numpy import sin > cdef double f(double x): > return sin(x*x) > > won't be that much slower than early-binding directly with sin. > > It could take another couple of weeks. So for Numba I think just > starting with whatever is fastest is the way to go now; and then > hopefully one can have the CEP done and things ported over before a > Numba or SciPy release gets into the wild without conforming to it. > > Dag > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
