On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 11:26:22 -0800 Nathaniel Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 Feb 2015 09:11, "Antoine Pitrou" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I apologize for pinging the list, but I was wondering if there was > > interest in either of https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/5457 (make > > array data aligned by default) or > > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/5470 (make the array data allocator > > configurable)? > > I'm not a fan of the configurable allocator. It adds new public APIs for us > to support, and makes switching to using Python's own memory allocation > APIs more complex. The feature is intrinsically dangerous, because newly > installed deallocators must be able to handle memory allocated by the > previous allocator. (AFAICT the included test case can crash the test > process if you get unlucky and GC runs during it?).
It's taken care of in the patch. > Regarding the aligned allocation patch, I think the problem is just that > none of us have any way to evaluate it. I'd feel a lot more comfortable > with some solid numbers showing the costs and benefits on old and new > systems. Ok. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ NumPy-Discussion mailing list [email protected] http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
