Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Christoph Groth <christ...@grothesque.org>
* Package name : tinyarray Version : 1.2.0 Upstream Author : Christoph Groth <christoph.gr...@cea.fr> * URL : https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/kwant/tinyarray * License : BSD Programming Lang: C++ Description : Arrays of numbers, optimized for small sizes Tinyarray is a numerical array module for Python. The multi-dimensional arrays it provides are best thought of as (possibly nested) tuples of numbers that, unlike Python's built-in tuples, support mathematical operations. Like tuples, tinyarrays are hashable and immutable and thus can be used as dictionary keys. The module's interface is a subset of that of NumPy and hence should be familiar to many Python programmers. Tinyarray has been heavily optimized for small arrays: For example, common operations on 1-d arrays of length 3 run 3-7 times faster than with NumPy. When storing many small arrays, memory consumption is reduced by a factor of 3. In summary, Tinyarray is a more efficient alternative to NumPy when many separate small numerical arrays are to be used. Tinyarray is needed for Kwant [1]. I'm it's main developer and have been maintaining unofficial Debian and Ubuntu packages for it since 2013. [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886418
