[MMTK] mmtk and numpy

[hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr]

On 27.08.2006, at 01:31, Gustavo Mercier wrote:

> Are there are any plans for migrating mmtk to numpy?

In principle, yes, but they are not concrete enough to announce a  
time schedule.

At the moment, the NumPy API is still changing in details, so it  
remains a moving target. The other problem is that there is array- 
dependent code everywhere in MMTK, which has to be checked line by  
line for NumPy incompatibilities. That's a lot of work that produces  
no publications and not even any immediate benefits - in other words,  
I cannot make this a priority task.

In fact, for the immediate future (in particular Python 1.5, with  
which Numeric has some problems) I will probably provide an updated  
Numeric for MMTK users. That is still a lot less work than switching  
to NumPy.

Konrad.
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Konrad Hinsen
Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS Orléans
Synchrotron Soleil - Division Expériences
Saint Aubin - BP 48
91192 Gif sur Yvette Cedex, France
Tel. +33-1 69 35 97 15
E-Mail: hinsen at cnrs-orleans.fr
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