The only way I've seen xtensor used is *with* pybind11 On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 5:45 PM Robert Kern <robert.k...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 2:00 AM Hans Dembinski <hans.dembin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi Sylvain, >> >> On 16. Aug 2018, at 13:29, Sylvain Corlay <sylvain.cor...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Actually, xtensor-python does a lot more in terms of numpy bindings, as >> it uses the C APIs of numpy directly for a number of things. >> >> Plus, the integration into the xtensor expression system lets you do >> things such as view / broadcasting / newaxis / ufuncs directly from the C++ >> side (and all that is in the cheat sheets). >> >> ok, good, but my point was different. The page in question is about >> Python as a glue language. The other solutions on that site are general >> purpose binding solutions for any kind of C++ code, while xtensor-python is >> xtensor-specific. xtensor in turn is a library that mimics the numpy API in >> C++. >> > > Even if you don't use the numpy-mimicking parts of the xtensor API, > xtensor-python is a probably a net improvement over pybind11 for > communicating arrays back and forth across the C++/Python boundary. Even if > the rest of your C++ code doesn't use xtensor, you could profitably use > xtensor-python at the interface. Also, though the article is generally > framed as using Python as a glue language (i.e. communicating with existing > C/C++/Fortran code), it is also relevant for the use case where you are > writing the C/C++/Fortran code from scratch (perhaps just accelerating > small kernels or whatever). Talking about the available options for that > use case is perfectly on-topic for that article. > > You don't have to be the one that writes it, though, if you just want to > cover pybind11. > > -- > Robert Kern > _______________________________________________ > NumPy-Discussion mailing list > NumPy-Discussion@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion >
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