[Numpy-discussion] Double-ended queues

[Chris Barker]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Sturla Molden <sturla@molden.no> wrote:
> Also, instead of writing a linked list, consider collections.deque.
> A deque is by definition a double-ended queue. It is just waste of time
> to implement a deque (double-ended queue) and hope it will perform
> better than Python's standard lib collections.deque object.

not for insertion, deletion, etc, but there _may_ be a benefit to a
class that stores the data in a homogenous data data buffer compatible
with numpy:

 - you could use non-standard data types (uint, etc...)

 - It would be more memory efficient *not having to store all those
python objects for each value)

 - you could round-trip to/from numpy arrays without data copying (or
with efficient data copying...) for other operations.

Whether it's worth the work would depend on teh use case, of course.

Writing such a thing in Cython would be pretty easy though,
particularly if you only needed to support a couple types.

-Chris









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