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Re:What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are... by kkuduk on Sunday April 14, 2013 @05:21AM (#5546416)
well, there are memoryviews, but they could have been designed better
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Re:What's Going On (on "Why Python, Ruby, and Javascript are... by travisoliphant on Sunday April 14, 2013 @10:08PM (#5549346)
Memoryviews are the step-child of NumPy arrays. The buffer-protocol was the real intent and the memory view the forgotten "example" until a few brave and noble Python devs rescued it from obscurity. Memory-views are not that useful to one who will always have NumPy installed.
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