Hi all, I noticed that some time ago there was a pull request ( https://github.com/cython/cython/pull/144) open that was trying to implement basic arithmetic operations with arrays. This seems to have also been proposed in CEP 518 ( https://github.com/cython/cython/wiki/enhancements-simd). What is the status on this?
This is a feature I'd really like to see in Cython. I'd be happy to help with it, though I don't currently know enough about the internals of Cython to do it without some guidance. What would be the best way to do this? I've had three ideas thus far that might allow something like this to work, but I'd really like to get some second opinions before I get too far with any of them. 1. Make these array operations available as a part of Cython's memory view objects. 2. Write a Cython wrapper around a NumPy-like C++ library. https://github.com/ContinuumIO/libdynd seems to be a good candidate, though I'm not as familiar with it. (This doesn't strike me as something that would be a part of the main Cython project, but it could be a good way to make this sort of functionality available. It seems like a good way to avoid a lot of duplicate work though.) 3. Write a Fortran backend for Cython that uses Fortran's arrays wherever memory views are used. (This could be a bit crazy, but with the iso_c_binding module, it might be possible. It could also allow better optimizations for arrays to be applied by the compiler.) What would be the best way to go about this? Thanks! -Ian Henriksen
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