[Numpy-discussion] is ndarray.base the closest base or the ultimate base?

[Robert Kern]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 13:30, Citi, Luca <lciti at essex.ac.uk> wrote:

>>> http://projects.scipy.org/numpy/ticket/1085
> But I think in that case it was still an improvement w.r.t. the current implementation
> which is buggy. At least it shields 95% of users from unexpected results.
> Using memory addresses and extents might be overkilling (and expensive) in that case.

numpy.may_share_memory() should be pretty cheap. It's just arithmetic.

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Robert Kern

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