On 3/7/2011 9:13 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: > Den 08.03.2011 00:36, skrev Dan Halbert: >> Do you all have some recommendations about tools, libraries, or languages >> that you have used to rewrite NumPy code easily into something that's more >> self-contained and callable from C? > > Fortran 95 > > It has the power of C, without the unsafe pointer arithmetics, almost > the readability of Python, and all the array magic of NumPy. > > Almost every serious numerical library have bindings for Fortran. > > Calling Fortran from C: > - Name mangling: usually lower-case with appended underscore. > - Assumed-size or explicit shape arrays: just pass a pointer (cf. f2py). > Avoid assumed-shape or deferred-size arrays in the interface to C. > - Fortran 2003 ISO C bindings (cf. fwrap).
Thanks, that's a good suggestion. I have not written Fortran since 1971, but it's come a long way. I was a little worried about the row-major vs column-major issue, but perhaps that can be handled just by remembering to reverse the subscript order between C and Fortran. Dan _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
