On 1/12/07, Timothy Hochberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 1/12/07, Torgil Svensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1/12/07, Timothy Hochberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [CHOP] > > > > > the core. I'm sure it's less efficient, but you shouldn't need to parse > the > > > data structure information very often. > > > > I believe that'll be more common than you think; for example > > dynamically creating/combining/slicing recarrays with various data. > > I was unclear here. I didn't mean like that it would be infrequent in "once > a month" sense. I meant that you would only need to look at the data > structure information once per set of data that you are accessing and that > you would typically extract many chunks of data from each set, so the > amortized cost of parsing the data structure would be small.
That's correct, it's not a performance issue as I can see it. //Torgil _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion