[Cython] 0.16 release

[mark florisson]

On 25 January 2012 01:27, Robert Bradshaw <robertwb at math.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 2:27 AM, mark florisson
> <markflorisson88 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> It's been almost three months since we talked about a 0.16 release, I
>> think it's quite ready. It would already be a big release, it would be
>> good to see how people like it, and to catch any issues etc before we
>> pile on more features.
>
> I would love to do a release soon. Last time this came up, I think the
> big issue was (compilation) performance regression. Has this been
> adequately addressed?

Sort of. Basically if you don't use memoryviews it will be as fast as
it used to be, otherwise there is about a 3 second constant time
overhead (on my machine).

> The other issue is that there are a couple of
> doctest failures with Sage. One source of problems is decorators due
> to the (ugly) disallowing of function re-declarations, I'll try look
> into this one. There are also a huge number of segfaults (see the
> bottom of https://sage.math.washington.edu:8091/hudson/view/ext-libs/job/sage-tests/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/log.txt
> ) which we need to get to the bottom of.

Oh I see. I suppose to try it out under a debugger one would have to
compile the whole of sage from source?

> - Robert
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