On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 12:20:37AM -0600, Robert Kern wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 00:13, Christopher Barker <chris.bar...@noaa.gov> > wrote: > > Travis Oliphant wrote: > >> What do people think > >> about adding a default dictionary to every instance of a NumPy array.
> > It sound kind of heavyweight to me. I tend to use lots of small arrays > > (to represent an x,y point, for instance). There are enough performance > > issues with that as it stands. Maybe an empty dict isn't much, but it is > > extra. > I think we can create the dict on demand, so there will be no overhead > except for the space for the pointer in the struct. I am +1 for the dict created on demand. It seems like a great idea to help subclassing. Gaël _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
