[Numpy-discussion] Notes from the numpy dev meeting at scipy 2015

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Wed Aug 26 13:11:01 EDT 2015


On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:45:51 +0000 (UTC)
Irwin Zaid <izaid at continuum.io> wrote:
> 
> So, we see DyND is having a twofold purpose. The first is to expand upon the
> kinds of data that NumPy can represent and do computations upon. The second
> is to provide a standard array package that can cross the language barrier
> and easily interoperate between C++, Python, or whatever you want.

One possible limitation is that the lingua franca for language
interoperability is C, not C++. DyND doesn't have to be written in C,
but exposing a nice C API may help make it attractive to the various
language runtimes out there.

(even those languages whose runtime doesn't have a compile-time
interface to C generally have some kind of cffi or ctypes equivalent to
load external C routines at runtime)

Regards

Antoine.





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