[Numpy-discussion] slow numpy.clip ?

Travis Oliphant oliphant at ee.byu.edu
Wed Dec 20 04:05:21 EST 2006


David Cournapeau wrote:
> en I went back to home, I started taking a close look a numpy/core C 
> sources, with the help of the numpy ebook. The huge source files make it 
> really difficult for me to follow some things: I was wondering if there 
> is some rationale behind it, or if this is just a remain of old 
> developments of numpy.
>
> The main problem I have with those huge files is that I am confused 
> between the functions parts of the public API, the one for backward 
> compatibility, etc... I wanted to extract the PyArray_TakeFom function 
> to see where the time is spent, but this is quite difficult, because of 
> various dependencies.
>
> My question is then: is there any plan to change this ? If not, is this 
> for some reasons I don't see, or is this just because of lack of manpower ?
>   

I'm not sure what you mean by "this".   I have no plans to change the 
infrastructure, but naturally suggestions are always welcome.   You just 
have to understand and figure out the limitations of trying to expose a 
C-API.

-Travis




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