[HN Gopher] NumPy 2.0
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NumPy 2.0
Author : scoresmoke
Score : 87 points
Date : 2024-06-16 19:32 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| ck45 wrote:
| Here's a link to the release notes:
| https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html
| chmaynard wrote:
| This is a draft. No release notes yet.
| Kortaggio wrote:
| Duplicate HN thread:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700259
| dang wrote:
| Changed to that from https://pypi.org/project/numpy/ above.
| Thanks!
| fbdab103 wrote:
| Any notable highlights for a consumer of Numpy who rarely
| interfaces directly with it? Most of my work is pandas+scipy,
| with occasionally dropping into the specific numpy algorithm when
| required.
|
| I am much more of an "upgrade when there is a X.1" release kind
| of guy, so my hat off to those who will bravely be testing the
| version on my behalf.
| scoresmoke wrote:
| The most important changes are deprecations of certain public
| APIs:
| https://numpy.org/devdocs/release/2.0.0-notes.html#deprecati...
|
| One new interesting feature, though, is the support for string
| routines:
| https://numpy.org/devdocs/reference/routines.strings.html#mo...
| amelius wrote:
| > One new interesting feature, though, is the support for
| string routines
|
| Sounds almost like they're building a language inside a
| language.
| ssahoo wrote:
| No. Native python ops in string suck in performance. String
| support is absolutely interesting and will enable
| abstractions for many NLP and LLM use cases without writing
| native C extensions.
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