Re: [pygame] vector class

[Greg Ewing <greg.ewing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

DR0ID wrote:
> why not put a fast vector class written 
> in C into the pygame package and wrap it?

That sounds like a useful idea.

> Perhaps you will say, there is numeric for that, but if you include 
> that, then you already depend on that module and I'm not sure if it 
> would be as fast.

It would almost certainly not be as fast for operating
on single vectors at a time, and not wanting to depend
on Numeric just for that is a reasonable consideration.

However, it would be nice if it could be made to
interoperate with Numeric if you do happen to be
using that.

I've written a few ad-hoc vector libraries over the
years for various projects, and I have some ideas on
what such a package should be like. Perhaps I'll
have a go at designing one...

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