ANN: NumExpr 2.8.3
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Robert McLeod
Jun 25, 2022, 4:45:55 PM6/25/22
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Hi everyone,
Please find here another maintenance release of NumExpr. Support for Python 3.6
has been dropped to enable support for NumPy 1.23 (and by extension Python 3.11
when it is released). Wheels for ARM64 multilinux should be available again after
troubles with GitHub Actions and Apple Silicon wheels are also now available on
PyPi for download.
Project documentation is available at:
http://numexpr.readthedocs.io/
Changes from 2.8.1 to 2.8.2
---------------------------
* Support for Python 3.6 has been dropped due to the need to substitute the flag
`NPY_ARRAY_WRITEBACKIFCOPY` for `NPY_ARRAY_UPDATEIFCOPY`. This flag change was
initiated in NumPy 1.14 and finalized in 1.23. The only changes were made to
cases where an unaligned constant was passed in with a pre-allocated output
variable:
```
x = np.empty(5, dtype=np.uint8)[1:].view(np.int32)
ne.evaluate('3', out=x)
```
We think the risk of issues is very low, but if you are using NumExpr as a
expression evaluation tool you may want to write a test for this edge case.
* Thanks to Matt Einhorn (@matham) for improvements to the GitHub Actions build process to add support for Apple Silicon and aarch64.
* Thanks to Biswapriyo Nath (@biswa96) for a fix to allow `mingw` builds on Windows.
* There have been some changes made to not import `platform.machine()` on `sparc`
but it is highly advised to upgrade to Python 3.9+ to avoid this issue with
the Python core package `platform`.
What's Numexpr?
---------------
Numexpr is a fast numerical expression evaluator for NumPy. With it,
expressions that operate on arrays (like "3*a+4*b") are accelerated
and use less memory than doing the same calculation in Python.
It has multi-threaded capabilities, as well as support for Intel's
MKL (Math Kernel Library), which allows an extremely fast evaluation
of transcendental functions (sin, cos, tan, exp, log...) while
squeezing the last drop of performance out of your multi-core
processors. Look here for a some benchmarks of numexpr using MKL:
https://github.com/pydata/numexpr/wiki/NumexprMKL
Its only dependency is NumPy (MKL is optional), so it works well as an
easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use, computational engine for projects that
don't want to adopt other solutions requiring more heavy dependencies.
Where I can find Numexpr?
-------------------------
The project is hosted at GitHub in:
https://github.com/pydata/numexpr
You can get the packages from PyPI as well (but not for RC releases):
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numexpr
Documentation is hosted at:
http://numexpr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Share your experience
---------------------
Let us know of any bugs, suggestions, gripes, kudos, etc. you may
have.
Enjoy data!
--
Please find here another maintenance release of NumExpr. Support for Python 3.6
has been dropped to enable support for NumPy 1.23 (and by extension Python 3.11
when it is released). Wheels for ARM64 multilinux should be available again after
troubles with GitHub Actions and Apple Silicon wheels are also now available on
PyPi for download.
Project documentation is available at:
http://numexpr.readthedocs.io/
Changes from 2.8.1 to 2.8.2
---------------------------
* Support for Python 3.6 has been dropped due to the need to substitute the flag
`NPY_ARRAY_WRITEBACKIFCOPY` for `NPY_ARRAY_UPDATEIFCOPY`. This flag change was
initiated in NumPy 1.14 and finalized in 1.23. The only changes were made to
cases where an unaligned constant was passed in with a pre-allocated output
variable:
```
x = np.empty(5, dtype=np.uint8)[1:].view(np.int32)
ne.evaluate('3', out=x)
```
We think the risk of issues is very low, but if you are using NumExpr as a
expression evaluation tool you may want to write a test for this edge case.
* Thanks to Matt Einhorn (@matham) for improvements to the GitHub Actions build process to add support for Apple Silicon and aarch64.
* Thanks to Biswapriyo Nath (@biswa96) for a fix to allow `mingw` builds on Windows.
* There have been some changes made to not import `platform.machine()` on `sparc`
but it is highly advised to upgrade to Python 3.9+ to avoid this issue with
the Python core package `platform`.
What's Numexpr?
---------------
Numexpr is a fast numerical expression evaluator for NumPy. With it,
expressions that operate on arrays (like "3*a+4*b") are accelerated
and use less memory than doing the same calculation in Python.
It has multi-threaded capabilities, as well as support for Intel's
MKL (Math Kernel Library), which allows an extremely fast evaluation
of transcendental functions (sin, cos, tan, exp, log...) while
squeezing the last drop of performance out of your multi-core
processors. Look here for a some benchmarks of numexpr using MKL:
https://github.com/pydata/numexpr/wiki/NumexprMKL
Its only dependency is NumPy (MKL is optional), so it works well as an
easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use, computational engine for projects that
don't want to adopt other solutions requiring more heavy dependencies.
Where I can find Numexpr?
-------------------------
The project is hosted at GitHub in:
https://github.com/pydata/numexpr
You can get the packages from PyPI as well (but not for RC releases):
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/numexpr
Documentation is hosted at:
http://numexpr.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Share your experience
---------------------
Let us know of any bugs, suggestions, gripes, kudos, etc. you may
have.
Enjoy data!
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