[pypy-dev] NumPyPy vs NumPy

[Maciej Fijalkowski]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Papa, Florin <florin.papa at intel.com> wrote:
> Hi Armin,
>
>>The table also shows that PyPy NumPyPy is really slower, even with vectorization enabled.
>>It seems that the current focus of our work, on continuing to improve cpyext instead of
>>numpypy, is a good idea.
>
> Does this mean that the main direction is to support NumPy (through improving cpyext)
> instead of maintaining NumPyPy? Is NumPy (with cpyext) fully supported in PyPy, or are there
> any known compatibility issues?
>
> Regards,
> Florin

Hi Florin

The main progress is to merge the two - we want to support NumPy (via
cpyext) and we want things that are fast in numpypy (array access
predominantly) to be used via numpypy