On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn d.s.seljebotn@astro.uio.no wrote:
On 05/18/2012 05:00 PM, Henry Gomersall wrote:
On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 14:45 +0200, Dag Sverre Seljebotn wrote:
I would focus on the 'polymorphic C API' spin. PyObject_GetItem is polymorphic, but there is no standard way for 3rd party libraries to make such functions.
So let's find a C API that's NOT about arrays at all and show how some polymorphism may help.
so memory mapped IO or something?
A C API towards a Python extension that's in wide use; an analog to the NumPy C API in a different domain. Something like a web server or database Python extension module which also exports a C API for writing other Python extension modules against it.
I'm not even sure if such a thing exists, in which case NumPy would indeed be a special case.
numpy *is* pretty unique in this regard. The need for this style of polymorphism at this level is even rarer.