2012/2/19 Matthew Brett <[email protected]> > Hi, > > On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 8:38 PM, Travis Oliphant <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > We will need to see examples of what Mark is talking about and clarify > some > > of the compiler issues. Certainly there is some risk that once code is > > written that it will be tempting to just use it. Other approaches are > > certainly worth exploring in the mean-time, but C++ has some strong > > arguments for it. > > The worry as I understand it is that a C++ rewrite might make the > numpy core effectively a read-only project for anyone but Mark. Do > you have any feeling for whether that is likely? >
Some of us are C developers, other are C++. It will depend on the background of each of us. > How would numpylib compare to libraries like eigen? How likely do you > think it would be that unrelated projects would use numpylib rather > than eigen or other numerical libraries? Do you think the choice of > C++ rather than C will influence whether other projects will take it > up? > I guess that the C++ port may open a door to change the back-end, and perhaps use Eigen, or ArBB. As those guys (ArBB) wanted to provided a Python interface compatible with Numpy to their VM, it may be interesting to be able to change back-ends (although it is limited to one platform and 2 OS). -- Information System Engineer, Ph.D. Blog: http://matt.eifelle.com LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/matthieubrucher
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