> Jacob Hall?n, 18.10.2011 18:41: >> I'd just like to note that the compelling reason for PyPy to develop numpy >> support is popular demand. We did a survey last spring, in which an >> overwhelming number of people asked for numpy support. This indicates that >> there is a large group of people who will be reap benefits from using PyPy >> plus Numpy, without specific support for scipy packages. > > Depends on what the question was. Many people say "NumPy", and when you ask > back, you find out that they actually meant "SciPy" or at least "NumPy and > parts x, y and z of its ecosystem that I commonly use…
I was one of the people who responded to that poll, and I have to say that I fall into the category "they actually meant 'SciPy'…". I assumed that there would be an interface to numpy that would also support scipy. SciPy has a lot of packages that run various things like SVD very, efficiently because it does them in C. I need access to those packages. I also write my own algorithms. For those, I want to benefit from PyPy's speed and don't necessarily want to make the algorithms fit into numpy's array-processing approach. So, I NEED SciPy, and would like to also have PyPy, and I'd like to use them together rather than having to separate everything into separate scripts, some of which use CPython/SciPy and some of which use PyPy. In fact, my current code doesn't need NumPy at all except as the way to get to SciPy. So, I have to say, I am unhappy with the current PyPy approach to NumPy. I'd rather see a much slower NumPy/PyPy integration if that meant being able to use SciPy seamlessly with PyPy. -- Gary Robinson CTO Emergent Discovery, LLC personal email: gary...@me.com work email: grobin...@emergentdiscovery.com Company: http://www.emergentdiscovery.com Blog: http://www.garyrobinson.net _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
