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| author | Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> | 2020-06-06 20:33:03 +0200 |
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| committer | Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers@gmail.com> | 2020-06-06 20:33:03 +0200 |
| commit | 106e37396991ca3453f98219e02d8a6e3b80c943 (patch) | |
| tree | 133d376dee0f6f4a9ce1013d4fb31647040e04d9 | |
| parent | 5e19fe8e19f0b30a369dcc3323a5c32ce064c572 (diff) | |
| download | numpy-106e37396991ca3453f98219e02d8a6e3b80c943.tar.gz | |
DOC: address review comments on gh-16445
Closes gh-13616.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/neps/roadmap.rst | 24 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/neps/roadmap.rst b/doc/neps/roadmap.rst index de4462cb9..40fcbd325 100644 --- a/doc/neps/roadmap.rst +++ b/doc/neps/roadmap.rst @@ -57,11 +57,15 @@ improve the dtype system. Performance ----------- -We want to further improve NumPy's performance, through: +Improvements to NumPy's performance are important to many users. The primary +topic at the moment is better use of SIMD instructions, also on platforms other +than x86 - see :ref:`NEP38`. -- Better use of SIMD instructions, also on platforms other than x86 - see :ref:`NEP38`. -- Reducing ufunc overhead. +Other performance improvement ideas include: + +- Reducing ufunc and ``__array_function__`` overhead. - Optimizations in individual functions. +- A better story around parallel execution. Furthermore we would like to improve the benchmarking system, in terms of coverage, easy of use, and publication of the results (now @@ -71,14 +75,15 @@ easy of use, and publication of the results (now Website and documentation ------------------------- +The NumPy `documentation <https://www.numpy.org/devdocs>`__ is of varying +quality. The API documentation is in good shape; tutorials and high-level +documentation on many topics are missing or outdated. See :ref:`NEP44` for +planned improvements. + Our website (https://numpy.org) was completely redesigned recently. We aim to further improve it by adding translations, better Hugo-Sphinx integration via a new Sphinx theme, and more (see `this tracking issue <https://github.com/numpy/numpy.org/issues/266>`__). -The NumPy `documentation <https://www.numpy.org/devdocs>`__ is of varying -quality. The API documentation is in good shape, high-level documentation on -many topics is missing or outdated. See :ref:`NEP44` for planned improvements. - User experience --------------- @@ -113,6 +118,11 @@ Maintenance - A backend system for ``numpy.fft`` (so that e.g. ``fft-mkl`` doesn't need to monkeypatch numpy). - Write a strategy on how to deal with overlap between NumPy and SciPy for ``linalg``. - Deprecate ``np.matrix`` (very slowly). +- Add new indexing modes for "vectorized indexing" and "outer indexing" (see :ref:`NEP21`). +- Make the polynomial API easier to use. +- Integrate an improved text file loader. +- Ufunc and gufunc improvements, see `gh-8892 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/8892>`__ + and `gh-11492 <https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/11492>`__. .. _`mypy`: https://mypy.readthedocs.io |