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Kirill Smelkov authored
BigArrays can be big - up to 2^64 bytes, and thus in general it is not possible to represent whole BigArray as ndarray view, because address space is usually smaller on 64bit architectures. However users often try to pass BigArrays to numpy functions as-is, and numpy finds a way to convert, or start converting, BigArray to ndarray - via detecting it as a sequence, and extracting elements one-by-one. Which is slooooow. Because of the above, we provide users a well-defined service: - if virtual address space is available - we succeed at creating ndarray view for whole BigArray, without delay and copying. - if not - we report properly the error and give hint how BigArrays have to be processed in chunks. Verifying that big BigArrays cannot be converted to ndarray also tests for behaviour and issues fixed in last 5 patches. /cc @Tyagov /cc @klaus
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