[Numpy-discussion] NumPy re-factoring project

[David Cournapeau]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 6:56 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla at molden.no> wrote:

>
> Also about array iterators in NumPy's C base (i.e. for doing something
> along an axis): we don't need those. There is a different way of coding
> which leads to faster code.
>
> 1. Collect an array of pointers to each subarray (e.g. using
> std::vector<dtype*> or dtype**)
> 2. Dispatch on the pointer array...

Do you have the code for this ? That's something I wanted to do, but
never took the time to do. Faster generic iterator would be nice, but
very hard to do in general.

> Another thing I did when reimplementing lfilter was "copy-in copy-out"
> for strided arrays.

What is copy-in copy out ? I am not familiar with this term ?

David