7 Sep
2001
7 Sep
'01
6:14 a.m.
benefits when I can use the overloaded operators and ufuncs, etc. Python itself still doesn't know that a NumPy array is a homogenous sequence (or might be), because it has no concept of such a thing. If the Python interpreter knew that it was homogenous, there could be a lot of opportunities for performance enhancements.
Such as? Given the overall dynamic nature of Python, I don't see any real opportunities outside array-specific code. What optimizations could be done knowing *only* that all elements of a sequence are of the same type, but without a particular data layout?
Konrad.
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