[Yt-dev] nickel instruction for using parallel HOP (not on Kraken)

Stephen Skory stephenskory at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 25 15:45:35 PST 2009


J. S.,


> > 2. Install Forthon in the standard python way.
> > http://hifweb.lbl.gov/Forthon/
> Can I ask what made you use Forthon over f2py? I have been using f2py,
> and have found it quite useful for wrapping fortran code. Given that
> f2py comes with numpy, I'm wondering what the specific advantage for
> Forthon is, if any.

I was unable to convince f2py to build static objects, which is required on Kraken. That is it's big advantage.

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