[Cython] Cython 0.16

[mark florisson]

Before we do a release, would anyone be opposed to a 'chunksize'
keyword argument to prange()? That may have significant performance
impacts.

On 29 October 2011 12:41, mark florisson <markflorisson88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hm ok I'll disable them then. Pointers and some other dtypes are also
> not supported yet. As for the documentation, have you guys reviewed
> the documentation for fused types and memoryviews? For instance this
> is the introduction for memoryviews:
>
> "
> Typed memoryviews can be used for efficient access to buffers. It is
> similar to the current buffer support, but has more features and
> cleaner syntax. A memoryview can be used in any context (function
> parameters, module-level, cdef class attribute, etc) and can be
> obtained from any object that exposes the PEP 3118 buffer interface.
> "
>
> but I'm not sure this new functionality won't confuse users of the old
> buffer support.
>
> For fused types, cython.numeric only includes long, double and double
> complex. I think that should be changed to short, int, long, float,
> double, float complex and double complex. I was deliberately avoiding
> long long and long double as they (if not used as a base type) would
> be preferred over the others and may be a lot slower. But then, such
> usage wouldn't be very useful. Should I include them then?
>
> On 29 October 2011 10:30, Dag Sverre Seljebotn
> <d.s.seljebotn at astro.uio.no> wrote:
>> Re b), it would be better to disable object dtypes (or emit a warning about
>> the possible bug when using them) than to delay the release. Object
>> memoryviews are rare in the first place, and those who contain themselves
>> should be very rare.
>> --
>> Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
>>
>> Robert Bradshaw <robertwb at math.washington.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:59 PM, mark florisson
>>> <markflorisson88 at gmail.com> wrote: > On 28 October 2011 21:55, Robert
>>> Bradshaw <robertwb at math.washington.edu> wrote: >> With Mark's fused types
>>> and memory views going in, I think it's about >> time for a new release.
>>> Thoughts? Anyone want to volunteer to take up >> the process? >> >> - Robert
>>> >>
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>>> >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel >> > > That'd be cool.
>>> >> However there are a few outstanding issues: >    a) the compiler is somewhat
>>> >> slower (possible solution: lazy utility codes) Yeah, I forgot about that.
>>> >> This should get resolved. Lazy utility codes (perhaps breaking them up)
>>> >> would probably got us most of the way there. Long term, I really like the
>>> >> "declaration caching" idea which could be used for users .pxd files as well
>>> >> as internally. >    b) there's a potential memory leak problem for
>>> >> memoryviews with > object dtype that contain themselves, this still needs
>>> >> investigation. I think this could be mentioned as a caviat rather than being
>>> >> a blocker. > As for a), Stefan mentioned code spending a lot of time in sub.
>>> >> > Stefan, could you post the code for this that made Cython compile very >
>>> >> slowly? >
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