[pythran] Re: Pythran 0.6 - C++ for snakes

  • From: Neal Becker <ndbecker2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pythran@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 06:58:42 -0400

That sounds like a good design choice.

I'm assuming code to dispatch to the correct routine is included?  So if I
call foo with a dense (c-contiguous) ndarray version 1 is called, while
otherwise version 2 is used?

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 4:53 AM, serge Guelton <sguelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:38:42AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > My top priority:
> >
> > * support for sliced arrays as input to functions
>
> Hi again Neal,
>
> I managed to get support for strided arrays, but I'd be happy to have
> your feedback on the user interface.
>
> Let's consider this generic function:
>
>     def foo(a):
>         return a
>
> with the following export:
>
>     #pythran export foo(int[])
>
> it will accept non-strided int 1D ndarrays, and with the following
> export:
>
>     #pythran export foo(int[::])
>
> it will accept any strided int 1D ndarray. you could combine both
> notations to accept any ndarray (strided or non strided):
>
>     #pythran export foo(int[])
>     #pythran export foo(int[::])
>
> I acknowledge it would be easier to accept both strided and non strided
> arrays using a single notation, but that would lead to performance
> decrease for the non-strided case.
>
> Any thought?
>
>


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