
Sebastian Haase wrote:
Perry, Thanks for the answer - that's about what I remembered. Is is conceivable to have a compiler flag (#define) to turn all the sequence protocol support off ? (How many places in the numarray code would that be?)
Offhand, I'm not sure (Todd probably has a much better quick answer for this question than I do). It is perhaps something that would allow us to test 64-bit arrays before the Python changes are ready if it isn't too hard to optionally disable the dependence on Python sequences. It's worth a quick look at after 1.2 is released.
I think the wish to just allocate large arrays and (even if in a very limited way!) work with them is clearly shared by many people. I always felt having a Py-List longer than billons of elements would have a rather low priority in comparison.
Just to note, we more and more local users who are begining to have a need for such large arrays too. Perry