On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 7:44 AM, David Cournapeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In numpy, we can always replace realloc by malloc/free, because we know > the size of the old block: would deprecating PyMemData_RENEW and > replacing them by PyMemeData_NEW/PyMemData_FREE be possible, such as to > make all numpy arrays follow a default alignement ? There are only a few > of them in numpy (6 of them), 0 in scipy, and I guess extensions never > really used them ?
I am in favor of at least trying this out. We will have to have a set of benchmarks to make sure we haven't hurt the current uses of PyMemData_RENEW which Tim points out. -- Robert Kern "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -- Umberto Eco _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
