2013/3/8 GW <gw.2...@tnode.com>

> **
>
> Hello,
>
> I am wondering why is there a proposal to provide only a compatible
> working NumPy CPU implementation for PyPy? Aren't NumPy operations more
> suited for GPGPU (eg. OpenCL or CUDA) and supporting them would result in a
> greater performance boost than just CPU?
>
> A great project thet seems to have implemented all aspects of
> parallization, also uses JIT ideas, and has a NumPy-compatible interface
> (with exchangable backend/context implementation) is Clyther (
> http://srossross.github.com/Clyther/). In my opinion it would be great to
> join the efforts, combine the knowledge and code, and create something
> really powerful.
>
Clythere itself is a pure Python library, but it is based
on opencl-for-python, which is written in Cython.
opencl-for-python could probably be rewritten on top of cffi, but it's a
fair amount of work.
Volunteers are welcome!


-- 
Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
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