El Tue, 29-09-2009 a las 16:25 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz escribió: > Bernie Innocenti wrote: > > 1) are there lighter-weight alternatives for the most popular uses of > > numpy? > > No. It has no competition, and is used by virtually every program that > uses python and performs array manipulation. I think it would probably be > part of the python standard library except for political issues (now > mostly resolved). It's not used as much as you think: 1!bernie@giskard:~$ LANG=C rpm -e numpy error: Failed dependencies: numpy is needed by (installed) pygame-1.8.1-7.fc12.x86_64 bernie@giskard:~$ rpm -qa | grep python | wc -l 93 It's also one of the worst startup time offenders I've ever seen in Python: with hot caches, it takes 300ms on a fast computer (~2 seconds on an XO). A lot longer if you have to actually fetch it from disk along with its unique dependencies. > > 2) would it be hard to remove this dependency from them? > > Yes. Numpy provides high-speed math for python. high-speed *advanced* math functions. -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
