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author | Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net> | 2021-04-19 15:19:24 -0500 |
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committer | Sebastian Berg <sebastian@sipsolutions.net> | 2021-05-12 15:33:34 -0700 |
commit | 834b1184c1f609a4e9ba06c55ea64ba882e4cdc1 (patch) | |
tree | d7bcb87952969fabddffe2a7e445f13f44b2ae34 /doc | |
parent | aaaa9753277ff9d387beecaf0f43519eacdea4eb (diff) | |
download | numpy-834b1184c1f609a4e9ba06c55ea64ba882e4cdc1.tar.gz |
MAINT: Remove `NPY_USE_NEW_CASTINGIMPL`
This doesn't serve any purpose anymore. The new code is now always
used. (In very few cases this may lead to small slowdowns, this
should only matter in ufuncs where it doesn't seem to matter enough
to worry about it.)
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/source/reference/global_state.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/doc/source/reference/global_state.rst b/doc/source/reference/global_state.rst index b59467210..f18481235 100644 --- a/doc/source/reference/global_state.rst +++ b/doc/source/reference/global_state.rst @@ -84,17 +84,3 @@ contiguous in memory. Most users will have no reason to change these; for details see the :ref:`memory layout <memory-layout>` documentation. -Using the new casting implementation ------------------------------------- - -Within NumPy 1.20 it is possible to enable the new experimental casting -implementation for testing purposes. To do this set:: - - NPY_USE_NEW_CASTINGIMPL=1 - -Setting the flag is only useful to aid with NumPy developement to ensure the -new version is bug free and should be avoided for production code. -It is a helpful test for projects that either create custom datatypes or -use for example complicated structured dtypes. The flag is expected to be -removed in 1.21 with the new version being always in use. - |