On Jan 23, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Carl Witty wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2:18 pm, Robert Bradshaw <[email protected]> > wrote: >> One thought I had was that support for a wide variety of types could >> be done by manipulating function pointers. This would make it easy to >> give support for a wide variety of types without a lot of specialized >> work. > > Function pointers are far too slow; I'm going for speed.
On the other hand they're much faster than manipulating a bunch of wrapped PyObject*. > Don't worry; a lot of the work in the new version is a generic type > support framework that indeed (hopefully) makes it easy to add more > types without too much work. That's good to hear. - Robert --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
