[Numpy-discussion] introducing Numpy.net, a pure C# implementation of Numpy

[Charles R Harris]

On Sat, Mar 16, 2019 at 4:41 AM <kmckenna at baselinesw.com> wrote:

> This is a quick note to announce open source numpy.net available at this
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> https://github.com/Quansight-Labs/numpy.net
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> This is a pure C# based implementation of Numpy, ported from the
> underlying C library and the python application layer.
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> Written and tested on .NET standard 2.1 so it will run anywhere.
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> I have the vast majority of the most commonly used functions implemented
> and unit tested. It supports fully functional slicing and views.
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> Verified to generate binary compatible output with python numpy.
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> I built it because I was tasked with porting a large Python Numpy
> application to C# and as you may know, there are not a lot of good
> solutions (until now).  My employer graciously agreed to open source it.
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> If you have some time to review it, I'd love to get some feedback from
> some Numpy experts (I don't consider myself one).
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> I believe it is ready to start building tools like SciPy on top of it.
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> Longer term, I would like to see this ported to Java.  I expect pure C# to
> port easily to Java.
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That's interesting. What parts are in C#? Any benchmarks comparing the two
implementations?

Chuck
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