[Numpy-discussion] Proposed Roadmap Overview

Sturla Molden sturla at molden.no
Sat Feb 18 10:56:50 EST 2012


> 
> I just meant what Sturla said, nothing more:
> 
> "Cython is still 0.16, it is still unfinished. We cannot base NumPy on
> an unfinished compiler."
> 

Albeit Cython has a special syntax for NumPy arrays, we are talking about implementation of NumPy, not using it. I would not consider Cython for this before e.g. memoryviews have been stable for a long period. The subset of Cython we could safely use is not better than plain C. 

Sturla





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