[pypy-dev] A proposal about Numpypy missing functions

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Daπid <davidmenhur at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have seen that there are some missing functions in numpypy that
> could be implemented, at least naïvely, very easily. An example of
> this is zeros_like, as we have zeros and shape. Another example is the
> random module, easy to port using list comprehension and the random
> module from the standard library. In any case, based on the benchmarks
> I have seen, I think the pypy version would be even faster than the
> pure CPython+Numpy.
>
> Would you be interested in a sub-optimal port of those functions? In
> my opinion, it is better to have something not great (that could be
> improved) that nothing at all. If so, what should I do?
>

The only requirement is that they come with tests (including weird corner
cases)

Cheers,
fijal
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