Matt Knox wrote: >>Moving the implementation to the C-level also has its downside. To >>me, at least, Python code is much more readable and hence easier to >>maintain. >> >>Is there a way that we can implement only the speed-critical methods >>in C? >> >>Cheers >>Stéfan >> >> >> > >Implementing the whole thing in C also has the side benefit of the possibility >making a nice C level api available to these sub-classes. And I suspect the >core >numpy developers are comfortable enough with C that maintainability is >*probably* not a huge concern here. > >But yeah, implementing even just the speed critical parts in C would still be a >nice improvement. > > Part of the trouble is that sometimes the speed critical parts are how slow Python functions (e.g. __getitem__) are. You want to avoid that function call and the only way to do that (that I know of) is to create the sub-class in C.
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