On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Aaron S. Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mar 18, 2011, at 9:36 PM, Tim Lahey wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've been thinking about applying for GSoC and working on a Cython core. I'm >> assuming that it would be an optional thing? So, there would be two cores, >> an optimized one that's done in Cython and a pure Python one for when Cython >> isn't available. >> >> Is the idea to update and clean up sympyx and properly integrate it into >> sympy? > > Well, the hope is that we can use things like @cythonized decorators in the > core, and make it just work either way (either it uses pure Python, or cython > if the cython has been made). This is how the cython in the polys works > right now. We will have to look at it to see if this will work for the core. > Anyway, it would definitely be optional no matter how it is done, because we > want people to be able to use SymPy using pure Python as the only dependency. > > Also, it was my understanding that the core needs a lot of cleanup before it > can be properly cythonized. In particular, the old assumptions have to be > completely removed and replaced with the new ones. Others know more about > the state of the core and could probably answer your questions better, though.
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