[pypy-dev] Questions on the pypy+numpy project

[David Cournapeau]

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 14:19, Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de> wrote:
>> The other situation is where PyPy does its own thing and supports some NumPy
>> code that happens to run faster than in CPython, while other code does not
>> work at all, with the possibility to replace it in a PyPy specific way.
>
> I think you are disregarding what 8 years of the PyPy project should
> have made obvious.  Yes, some code will not run at all on PyPy at
> first, and that amount of code is going to be reduced over time.  But
> what we want is to avoid a community split, so we are never, ever,
> going to add and advertise PyPy-only ways to write programs.

Ok. In that case, it is fair to say that you are talking about a full
reimplementation of the whole scipy ecosystem, at least as much as
pypy itself is a reimplementation of python  ? (since none of the
existing ecosystem will work without the C numpy API). Sorry for being
dense, just want to make sure I am not misrepresenting your approach,

David