On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 14:58:05 -0700
Nathaniel Smith wrote:
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> Now if you see "religion" there, then what does that tell you? Maybe
> it means that these people are really excited about protecting
> oppressive religions. Or... maybe it means that they're opposed to
> anti-semitism, Islamophobia, et
On Wed, 1 Aug 2018 21:26:35 -0700
Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Ryan May wrote:
> > So I hear all the arguments about people feeling unsafe due to some truly
> > despicable, discriminatory behavior, and I want absolutely no parts of
> > protecting that. However, I also
On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 17:16:00 -0600
Charles R Harris wrote:
> Maybe somewhat off topic, but we have had trouble with a 2 GiB limit on
> file writes on OS X. See https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/3858. Does
> your implementation work around that?
No, it's not the same topic at all. I'd recomm
Hello,
Some of you might know that I've been working on a PEP in order to
improve pickling performance of large (or huge) data. The PEP,
numbered 574 and titled "Pickle protocol 5 with out-of-band data",
allows participating data types to be pickled without any memory copy.
https://www.python.o
Hi,
Do you plan to consider trying to add PEP 574 / pickle5 support? There's
an implementation ready (and a PyPI backport) that you can play with.
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0574/
PEP 574 implicits targets Numpy arrays as one of its primary producers,
since Numpy arrays is how large sc
On Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:26:13 -0700
Stephan Hoyer wrote:
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> I agree with Anne here. Variable-length encoding would be great to have,
> but even fixed length UTF-8 (in terms of memory usage, not characters)
> would solve NumPy's Python 3 string problem. NumPy's memory model needs a
> fixed size pe
On Fri, 14 Apr 2017 22:19:42 -0700
Nathaniel Smith wrote:
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> From numpy's perspective, I feel like the most important reason to
> continue supporting 2.7 is our ability to convince people to keep
> upgrading. (Not the only reason, but the most important.) What I mean
> is: if we dropped 2.7 suppo
