[Numpy-discussion] NumPy re-factoring project

[Sebastien Binet]

On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:47:10 -0500, Jason McCampbell <jmccampbell at enthought.com> wrote:
> > 4) Boost has some reference counted pointers, have you looked at them? C++
> > is admittedly a very different animal for this sort of application.
> >
> 
> There is also need to replace the usage of PyDict and other uses of CPython
> for basic data structures that aren't present in C.  Having access to C++
> for this and reference counting would be nice, but has the potential to
> break builds for everyone who use the C API.  I think it's worth discussing
> for the future but a bigger (and possibly more contentious) change than we
> are able to take on for this project.

for the dict part, a probably good enough replacement could be the hash
table from:

http://c-algorithms.sourceforge.net/


cheers,
sebastien.

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