[sage-devel] Re: Migrating CDF and RDF matrices to numpy

2008-05-12 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
These ongoing discussions about Numpy and matrices versus arrays might be of interest: http://groups.google.com/group/Numpy-discussion/browse_thread/thread/fe349bb7f1a1809a http://groups.google.com/group/Numpy-discussion/browse_thread/thread/63441776acd05034 Joachim On May 11, 8:27 am,

[sage-devel] Re: Migrating CDF and RDF matrices to numpy

2008-05-11 Thread mabshoff
On May 11, 6:39 am, William Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2008, Jason Grout wrote: Currently CDF and RDF matrices wrap GSL matrices and use GSL algorithms for part of

[sage-devel] Re: Migrating CDF and RDF matrices to numpy

2008-05-10 Thread Yi Qiang
Are there going to be any API incompatibilities going to be introduced by this move? That is, will existing code written against RDF and CDF matrices still just work? On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 6:41 PM, Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Currently CDF and RDF matrices wrap GSL matrices and use

[sage-devel] Re: Migrating CDF and RDF matrices to numpy

2008-05-10 Thread boothby
On Sat, 10 May 2008, Jason Grout wrote: Currently CDF and RDF matrices wrap GSL matrices and use GSL algorithms for part of the computations. After talking with a few lead developers on IRC, it seems that the consensus is that numpy is generally better and has a much, much stronger

[sage-devel] Re: Migrating CDF and RDF matrices to numpy

2008-05-10 Thread Jason Grout
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2008, Jason Grout wrote: Currently CDF and RDF matrices wrap GSL matrices and use GSL algorithms for part of the computations. After talking with a few lead developers on IRC, it seems that the consensus is that numpy is generally better and

[sage-devel] Re: Migrating CDF and RDF matrices to numpy

2008-05-10 Thread William Stein
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Jason Grout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2008, Jason Grout wrote: Currently CDF and RDF matrices wrap GSL matrices and use GSL algorithms for part of the computations. After talking with a few lead developers on IRC,