On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 1:58 PM, Travis E. Oliphant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > Hello all, > > While we are on the subject of C-API changes, I've noticed that quite a > few of the sub-classes of ndarray are constructed to basically add > meta-information to the array. > > What if the base-class ndarray grew a dict object at it's end to hold > meta information. > > Naturally, several questions arise: > > 1) How would you access the dictionary? (i.e. __dict__?) > > 2) Would attribute setting and getting retrieve from this dictionary > (how are conflicts managed). > * I think I would prefer a dict attribute on the numpy array that > gets and sets into the dictionary. > > 3) Are the additional 4-8 bytes too expensive > One of the problems with numarray was the time taken to allocate small arrays. Would adding a dictionary slow down the allocation of numpy arrays? Chuck
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