Alan G Isaac wrote: > On 10/7/2009 10:51 PM, David Cournapeau wrote: > >> pimp-like strategies >> > > > Which means ... ? >
The idea is to put one pointer in you struct instead of all members - it is a form of encapsulation, and it is enforced at compile time. I think part of the problem with changing API/ABI in numpy is that the headers show way too much information. I would really like to improve this, but this would clearly break the ABI (and API - a lot of macros would have to go). There is a performance cost of one more indirection (if you have a pointer to a struct, you need to dereference both the struct and the D pointer inside), but for most purpose, that's likely to be negligeable, except for a few special cases (like iterators). cheers, David _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list NumPy-Discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
