hi all,
maybe you're aware of numpypy - numpy port for pypy (pypy.org) - Python language implementation with dynamic compilation.

Unfortunately, numpypy developmnent is very slow due to strict quality standards and some other issues, so for my purposes I have provided some missing numpypy funcs, in particular

• atleast_1d, atleast_2d, hstack, vstack, cumsum, isscalar, asscalar, asfarray, flatnonzero, tile, zeros_like, ones_like, empty_like, where, searchsorted
• with "axis" parameter: nan(arg)min, nan(arg)max, all, any

and have got some OpenOpt / FuncDesigner functionality working faster than in CPython.

File with this functions you can get here

Also you may be interested in some info at http://openopt.org/PyPy
Regards, Dmitrey.