On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Nelle Varoquaux
<[email protected]>wrote:
> But in general, I don't think we can "force" the user to use sparse
> matrices. They are an absolute pain to work with because of the
> inconsistencies of interface with ndarray and conversion between sparse and
> dense can be time consuming.
Every once in a while I think of refactoring SciPy's sparse matrices into
sparse arrays (with ndarray-like semantics) with the matrix interface as a
wrapper like np.matrix is, but it would be a big undertaking and so far
nobody else has seemed excited about it.
-Ken
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