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The main reason why more people are not working on this is that: * volunteers are interested somewhere else * nobody is willing to put money into numpy on pyp
by fijall 15y ago
The main reason why more people are not working on this is that:
* volunteers are interested somewhere else
* nobody is willing to put money into numpy on pypy happening
- true_religion 15y agoI think part of the issue is that even PyPy + NumPy wouldn't give you compelling gains versus NumPy + Cython in CPython. The big win of PyPy vs. Cython is that you get a 10x or so speed improvement without having to specify types, but if you're using NumPy already, then its pretty standard to specify types already so NumPy can optimize. At that point, you really have to ask yourself if it isn't worth it to just build a Cython module and get next to C speed for that hotspot. The great thing about Cython is that it lets you call inbetween C and Python at little overhead without having to write any code for the Python C-API like you would if you were using CTypes or even Boost::Python.