I wonder if it would be worthwhile to have another poll, this time clearly differentiating between
a) focusing on integrating the existing numpy in such a way that scipy and other such packages are also enabled, probably using the existing project to provide a C interface that IronPython and other Python variants can use; or b) the current path of replacing much of numpy, making it much faster but leaving scipy out in the cold for quite some time. I don't think it's clear, at this point, which approach would generate more monetary contributions. I suspect it might be (a) because of commercial scientific research that depends on scipy. Of course, if the path decision is already firm, then such a poll would be moot. -- Gary Robinson CTO Emergent Discovery, LLC personal email: gary...@me.com work email: grobin...@emergentdiscovery.com Company: http://www.emergentdiscovery.com Blog: http://www.garyrobinson.net On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Antonio Cuni wrote: > Hello Gary, > > On 19/10/11 15:38, Gary Robinson wrote: >>>> You would like pypy+numpy+scipy so that you could write fast >>>> python-only algorithms and still use the existing libraries. I >>>> suppose this is a perfectly reasonable usecase, and indeed >>>> the current plan does not focus on this. >>> >> >> Yes. That is exactly what I want. > [cut] > > thank you for the input: indeed, I agree that for your usecase the current > plan is not the best. OTOH, there is probably someone else for which the > current plan is better than others, we cannot make everyone happy at the same > time, although we might do it eventually :-). > > By the way, did you ever considered the possibility of running pypy and > cpython side-by-side? > You do your pure-python computation on pypy, then you pipe them (e.g. by > using execnet) to a cpython process which does the processing using scipy. > Depending on how big the data is, the overhead of passing the data around > should not be too high > > It's not ideal, but it might be worth of being tried. > > ciao, > Anto _______________________________________________ pypy-dev mailing list pypy-dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-dev
