On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:48 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.har...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Hi David > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:51 AM, David Cournapeau < > da...@ar.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> For quite a long time I have been bothered by the very large files >> needed for python extensions. In particular for numpy.core, which >> consists in a few files which are ~ 1 Mb, I find this a pretty high >> barrier of entry for newcomers, and it has quite a big impact on the >> code organization. I think I have found a way to split things on common >> platforms (this includes at least windows, mac os x, linux and solaris), >> without impacting other potentially less capable platforms, or static >> linking of numpy. >> > > There was a discussion of this a couple of years ago. I was in favor of > many small files maybe in subdirectories. Robert, IIRC, thought too many > small files could become confusing, so there is a fine line in there > somewhere. I am generally in favor of breaking the files up into their > functional components and maybe rewriting some of the upper level interface > files in cython. But it does need some agreement and we should probably > start by just breaking up a few files. I don't have a problem with big files > that are just collections of small routines all of the same type, > umath_loops.inc.src for instance. > > Here is a link to the start of the old discussion<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/12974/match=exported+symbols+code+reorganization>. You took part in it also. Chuck
_______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
