Re: Cython 0.16 Release Candidate

mark florisson wrote:

> We are happy to announce the first release candidate for Cython 0.16,
> you can grab it from here: http://wiki.cython.org/ReleaseNotes-0.16
> 
> Since the beta last month several issues have been fixed, including
> the NumPy array attribute access deprecation, which are now rewritten
> to use the NumPy macros. Another serious bug in the reversed(range())
> optimization was disabled, a C compiler bug on OS X Lion in OpenMP
> code was circumvented, the documentation for fused types has been
> improved, some bugs related to fused C++ and buffers types have been
> fixed, and nogil was added to the included STL declarations.
> 
> I encourage everyone to give it a try, see if your project still
> compiles and works, and if it doesn't to take up those torches and
> pitchforks from your desks, you know where to find us.
> 
> Enjoy!

So with new memoryview support, is it true that I can write algorithms in 
cython, that accept non-contiguous numpy array slices (from python), and can 
operate on them with (reasonable) efficiency?  IIRC, that was not true with 
previous cython numpy support.