[Jprogramming] J v NumPy (was Re: J v Python)

[Konrad Hinsen]

--On 12 décembre 2012 11:28:31 -0500 Raul Miller <rauldmiller at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Konrad Hinsen
> <konrad.hinsen at fastmail.net> wrote:
>> My personal dream would be a J implementation that uses NumPy arrays
>> internally, letting me combine Python and J easily.
>
> Why not the other way around?
>
> Since NumPy's design is about incorporating externally defined types,
> why not make it support J's types?

My data comes in through C libraries interfaced to NumPy, so my starting 
point for any computation is a NumPy array. If I can get away with not 
copying it to something else, that would be the best solution for me.

I don't know how J arrays are stored internally. Perhaps one could have 
both NumPy and J arrays share the same memory space for the raw data. That 
would be a nice solution as well.

Konrad.