R: [Gdal-dev] trivial (?) optimization for gdal.i:GDALReadRaster( )

[Norman Vine]

Alessandro Amici wrote:
> >
> > if you want to help testing you may try out the attached patch, just define
> > the environment variable GDAL_PYTHON_NUMARRAY to anything and you get
> > numarray support :).

Please note that while Numary is optimized for large vectors it is *much* slower 
< order of magnitude or so >  with small vectors.  Which may or may not be of
consequence depending on your usage.  

This suggests that which version of the Numeric Python extension is linked should 
probably remain a configurable option 

Cheers

Norman