I'll echo Marten's sentiments. I've found __numpy_ufunc__ as it exists in
the master branch to be quite useful in my experiments with sparse arrays (
https://github.com/perimosocordiae/sparray), and I think it'll be a net
benefit to scipy.sparse as well (despite the unpleasantness with __mul__).

-CJ

On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Marten van Kerkwijk <
m.h.vankerkw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Chuck, others,
>
> A propos __numpy_ufunc__, what is the current status? Is it still the
> undetermined result of the monster-thread (
> https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/5844 -- just found it again by
> sorting by number of comments...)?
>
> As noted by Stephan and myself when the decision was made to remove it
> from 1.10, for external libraries it would be really wonderful to have
> *any* version of __numpy_ufunc__ in 1.11, as it provides great beneifts
> (instant factor 2 improvement in speed for astropy quantities...). In the
> end, the proposals were not that different, and, really, what is in current
> master is quite good.
>
> All the best,
>
> Marten
>
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