--- Neil Hodgson <nhodgson@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>
> I'd like to see the purpose of the interface defined here rather than
> rely upon a reference to an email which talks about two buffer entities,
> the API and the object. Reading the email produces a purpose that could
> be used here:
>
> [the Buffer API is] intended to allow efficient
> binary I/O from and (in some cases) to large objects that have a
> relatively well-understood underlying memory representation
>
It's not just for I/O. In addition to I/O, I intend to use it for
numerical calculations that can be run independently of the GIL.
Cheers,
-Scott
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