Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH WIP] replace numpy with struct

[joannah nanjekye <nanjekyejoannah@gmail.com>]

I will send an update tomorrow as am travelling rite now.

Thanks for the reminder.

On Nov 3, 2017 2:24 PM, "Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 10:50:26AM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > Hi Joannah,
> >
> > The common subject to use is [RFC PATCH] instead of [PATCH WIP]
> >
> > On 10/26/2017 09:14 AM, Joannah Nanjekye wrote:
> > > This patch replaces the use of numpy with the standard Library struct
> module where possible.
> >
> > This seems a good idea but why?
>
> I suggest adding this to the commit description:
>
> Users tend to hit an ImportError when running analyze-migration.py due
> to the numpy dependency.  numpy functionality isn't actually used, just
> binary serialization that the standard library 'struct' module already
> provides.  Removing the dependency allows the script to run
> out-of-the-box.
>
> > Do you have any performance improvements results to share?
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Joannah Nanjekye <nanjekyejoannah@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >
> > >  scripts/analyze-migration.py | 19 ++++++++++++-------
> > >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> I don't see a removal of "import numpy as np" so this script still
> depends on numpy.  Did you forget to sent further patches that you have
> to remove the numpy dependency?
>