Re: [pygame] numpy array module now in the pygame development tree

[Lenard Lindstrom <len-l@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marcus von Appen wrote:
> On, Sun Jan 06, 2008, Lenard Lindstrom wrote:
>   
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>  
>   
> > The code is also inefficient, not making proper use to numpy's type system. 
> > Using (numpy.uint8(0xff), numpy.uint8(0)) as the second argument to choose 
> > returns an array of uint8.
> >     
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> I do not know anything about the efficiency tweaks in numpy as the
> available documentation lacks such things. I'd have expected it to match
> the type automatically, but for now I changed the function using your
> proposal. Thanks.
>
> Regards
> Marcus
>   

I admit I made an assumption about efficiency. But I don't see how 
removing the "array = array.astype (numpy.uint8)" step, where an array 
of int32 is copied to a newly allocated array of uint8, will make things 
worse.

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Lenard Lindstrom
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