> I would definitely be interested in helping, but don't exactly know where to > start. We have a lot of users who would > love to get access to numpy on our OSX and 64bit windows versions of our > product. This is only going to become a > bigger problem in the future since we will probably only have a 64bit version > for Window in the next version of Rhino. >
> Any suggestions? Host it in a CPython instance and use through smth like rpyc. IMO that's good enough if it's so critical to have that functionality. After all, numpy is specifically designed for performance and memory-efficiency on large data sets. Why even consider moving it to an IL environment infested with metadata and safety checks? > -Steve > Steve Baer > Robert McNeel & Associates > www.rhino3d.com > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Jeff Hardy <jdha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Doug Blank <doug.bl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > numpy is a numeric package for CPython that used a lot in science. Wondering > about what it would take to develop a numpy for IronPython... > I know a few years ago that there was a paid project to port numpy to > IronPython [1], but that appears to have been > only for Windows, and they seem to have some unfinished bits. Not sure what > the license of that is. > What to do for numpy IronPython on other platforms? > I think you're out of luck, unfortunately. > > > PyPy has been working on their numpy for years [2] and have made some great > progress [3]. Would that help a numpy on IronPython? > I'm not sure how the PyPy team is doing the port anymore. At one point I > thought they were going to rewrite it in > RPython but I don't know if that's the case. I also thought Cython might be > involved. Ialso heard that the NumPy team > would make their core a plain C library that could be wrapped with > ctypes/CFFI. I have no idea if any of those panned out. > NumPy (and SciPy/Pandas/etc) is one of those projects I would love to see > working but just don't have the time or > need to do it myself. Someone else will have to step up to lead that project > if it's ever going to get done. > - Jeff > _______________________________________________ > Ironpython-users mailing list > Ironpython-users@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users > -- Best regards, Ivan mailto:v...@mail.mipt.ru _______________________________________________ Ironpython-users mailing list Ironpython-users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users