On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why can't you have scipy and friends without a C-API? Presumabley it's all > code that either manipulates an array or calls into an existing lib to > manipulate an array. Why can't you write pure python code to manipulate > arrays and then call into other libs via ctypes and friends? Sorry, I was not very clear: with scipy *as of today*, you can't make it work without supporting the numpy C API. What I meant by hiding is that once a code uses numpy C API and the python C API only through cython, it becomes much easier to support both CPython and pypy at least in principle (and the code is more maintainable). But scipy is basically pure python code + lots of pure fortran/C code + wrappers around it. Having something that automatically wraps C/fortran for pypy is something that seems reasonable for pypy people to do and would narrow the gap. cheers, David _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
