[Jython-users] Numpy through NestedVM?

[Arlindo da S. <da...@al...>]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Jim Baker <jb...@zy...> wrote:

> SciPy is not ported. We plan to work on NumPy first, once we release 2.5
> very soon (in early 2009). Any such NumPy work will take advantage of
> optimizations we are planning for the advanced compiler and will out of the
> box support backing large arrays with NetCDF (and unifed with HDF and DAP),
> since we plan to use the Unidata project as our base (
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/). That could be quite interesting, I think.
>
>
Has anybody considered using NextedVM as an alternative to implementing
Numpy and eventually Matplotlib/SciPy?

        http://nestedvm.ibex.org/

(In a nutshell, NextedVM compiles C code into Java byte code, using MIPS as
an intermediate step.) I have had good luck compiling, NetCDF, HDF, cURL,
and a whole bunch of other libraries into Java.  For example,

                   http://opengrads.org/devel/java/netcdf-vm.jar

In particular, the current NestedVM gcc 3.x tool chain allows you can
compile Fortran 77 into Java byte code with g77; updating NestedVM to gcc
4.x may give us gfortran.  I am wondering if one could get f2py implemented
this way.

           Arlindo

-- 
Arlindo da Silva
da...@al...