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Add NumSharp-specific changelog authoring skill with procedures for working through large commit ranges. The skill documents: - The 5-bucket commit triage (Cited / Folded / Package-internal / Excluded / UNHANDLED) - Mechanical sweep procedure for batching & bucketing commits - Triage taxonomy with hard-case decision rules & worked examples (0.70.0 range) - Accuracy verification checklist (numbers, fixed vs pinned, §7A audits, dedup correctness) References CHANGELOG_STYLE.md for format rules; owns the process for ensuring completeness & truth over few-hundred-commit ranges.
…stream The stateful random ops in the fuzz OpRegistry drove the process-global np.random singleton: `seed`, `rnd`, `set_state` and `get_state` each called np.random.seed(...) / np.random.set_state(...) and then drew from np.random directly. That mutated shared bit-generator state as a side effect of replaying the corpus, so any test that ran after a random-parity case (in the same assembly / process) observed a re-seeded global stream. It only stayed correct because the tier's test method is [DoNotParallelize] and the runner is sequential — a brittle invariant, not isolation. Each case now constructs a fresh RandomState() (or RandomState(state) for set_state) and draws from that instance; RndDraw takes the NumPyRandom instance as a parameter and routes every one of its ~40 distributions through it instead of np.random.*. The global singleton is never touched. Results are byte-for-byte unchanged: a fresh RandomState seeds MT19937 identically to the global instance, so the recorded oracle bytes still match — no corpus regeneration required. Adds OpRegistryRandomIsolationTests (a [DoNotParallelize] guard) that snapshots the global state + Seed, then asserts they are unchanged after driving seed / rnd / set_state / get_state, the entire random_parity + random_parity_host corpora, and a spread of extra distributions (binomial, f, multinomial, multivariate_normal, negative_binomial, pareto, standard_cauchy). The original global state is restored in a finally block.
Surfaces the test suite + differential-fuzz oracle as a first-class, reproducible website dashboard — the correctness counterpart to the existing Benchmarks and API-coverage hubs. Inventory tool (test/inventory/): - NumSharp.Tools.TestInventory — reflects over the three real MSTest assemblies (declared tests, categories, [OpenBugs]/[Misaligned]/[FuzzMatrix]/manual attributes) and folds in the committed NumPy/Decimal/index/format oracle artifacts. - generate_test_inventory.py — driver, with a --check mode for CI. - generated/ — the committed, diffable outputs (summary.md, tests-oracle-report.json/.csv, tests-oracle-manifest.json). These report DECLARATIONS + committed evidence, never a fabricated pass rate; runtime pass/fail stays the job of `dotnet test`. Website dashboard: - docs/tests-oracle-dashboard.md — the hand-built hub (heatmaps of dtype/layout coverage, corpus strength, known-bug/ignored labels, evidence drill-down). - docfx.json — copies generated/summary.md to docs/reports/tests-oracle and the json/csv/manifest to docs/data (the dashboard never runs tests or Python in the browser). - toc.yml / docs/toc.yml — add the "Tests & Oracle" nav entry + sub-items. - index.md + main.css — add the homepage card/button (with the .ns-home-button- label two-line style) alongside Benchmarks and Supported Features. - api/toc.yml — regenerated API TOC, picking up the already-public random types (BitGenerator, Generator, PCG64/Pcg64StateData, SeedSequence) and NameError. CI (.github/workflows/docs.yml): - Adds a "Generate Tests & Oracle inventory" step and a diff-against-committed verification gate (mirroring the coverage-dashboard gate), plus artifact upload/download between the api-coverage and build-and-deploy jobs. - Adds test/** to the push/PR path filters so test changes rebuild the docs.
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Data-only benchmark publish (no source or kernel changes in this commit).
- Regenerated the canonical op/dtype/N report (benchmark/benchmark-report.md)
and the five appended subsystem sheets: cast, fusion, layout, nditer (incl.
the cat/ops cards) and operand — .md + .tsv where applicable.
- Committed the history snapshot benchmark/history/2026-08-22_32598ddf/ (the
full MANIFEST + report.{md,json,csv} + numpy-results + every subsystem sheet +
the managed/openblas backend profiles) and repointed benchmark/history/latest
at it — the tracked home for these otherwise-gitignored json/csv artifacts.
- Refreshed the website data the Benchmarks dashboard reads:
docs/website-src/docs/data/benchmark-report{,.managed,.openblas}.json.
All in the NPY/NS convention (>1 = NumSharp faster).
…use style - docs/releases/RELEASE_0.70.0.md — deduplicated highlights of the journey3 branch, one line per feature (iteration commits folded in): the breaking changes (np.random.bytes -> NDArray<byte>, ndarray.strides in bytes, np.unique -> UniqueResult, mgrid/meshgrid signatures, strong-naming, the NUMSHARP_<AREA>_<SETTING> env rename), the two new optional NuGet packages (NumSharp.Interop.OpenBLAS, the pythonnet interop), and the feature/perf additions — each carrying its commit ref and, for perf, an xLOW->xHIGH NPY/NS ratio. - CHANGELOG_STYLE.md — the living house-style guide the changelog skill applies: a categorized, deduplicated, one-liner-per-feature changelog where every API name is code-formatted, multi-function features expand into a grouped sub-list, and performance entries lead with an xLOW->xHIGH NPY/NS ratio; derived from the full commit range (subjects AND bodies), organized by feature rather than by commit. Includes an amendment log so format decisions stay traceable.
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Add [MethodImpl(OptimizeAndInline)] (= AggressiveInlining |
AggressiveOptimization) across the hot SIMD/scalar kernel code so it skips
the tiered-JIT tier-0 penalty (the documented ~27x-slower first calls) and
inlines the small lane/bit helpers. Value-neutral: MethodImpl only affects
JIT tiering/inlining, never computed results. NumSharp.Core builds clean.
Two target classes, matching the convention the reduction kernels
(SimdDot / FiniteScan / NanReplace) already follow:
1. Small loopless lane / bit-reinterpret transforms (the FloatToHalfBits
archetype), annotated for inline + tier-1:
- Half cast bit-fiddle: FloatToHalfBits, HalfBitsToFloat(Exact),
Single/HalfToFloatScalarExact, RoundToOdd4, {Int64,UInt64,Double}
ToHalfBits, Half<->{i32,u32} lane loads, AnyNaN, NegateHalf
- f->u32/u64 lanes: DoubleToU32x4, SingleToU32x8, DoubleToU64x4
- complex deinterleave: ComplexReals4, ComplexRealsToInt32, ComplexNonzero4
- byteswap MaskFor; NDFloatMath.Simd MulAdd (V128/256/512)
- radix/hash/isin bit keys: FKey/FVal32/64, ToKey/FromKey32/64, HashKey,
HashKeyComplex, Splitmix, NormalizeZeros, KeyBits
2. Non-inlinable SIMD loop kernels (Bulk*, Fused*, Cast*Strided,
ReduceStridedAxis*, *SimdHelper, ScanRun*), annotated for the tier-0 skip.
Inlining is a structural no-op here (most are invoked through CastKernel /
StridedCastKernel delegates and &Bulk*V function pointers, through which
the JIT cannot inline), but AggressiveOptimization removes the cold-start
penalty and the inline hint is harmless. Applied via a Roslyn rewrite
(token-position insertion, formatting-preserving) after a dry run.
Scope notes:
- The FFT butterfly helpers and the scalar NumPy-exact float32 math
(Exp/Log/Sin/Cos/Tanh) got the same treatment but landed in a prior commit.
- Excluded: vendored Utilities/SpanSource helpers (kept in sync with the
.NET runtime), FFT Pass/Radf codelets (Cmplx-struct math, not hardware
intrinsics), and setup-time capability predicates (IsExpVectorAccelerated,
SelectSimdMode, ...).
- Cast.Half.cs / Cast.ToHalf.cs also carry a few private->internal
visibility widenings from concurrent Half-sum work already in the tree.
…umPy HALF_add parity)
np.sum(float16) accumulated in the wrong precision and diverged from NumPy. NumPy's
HALF_add reduce widens each float16 to float32 on read, accumulates with the FLOAT
pairwise_sum, then narrows per inner-loop call (npy_float_to_half) — so the accumulator
saturates PER ORIENTATION. NumSharp's flat path summed in Double and its axis Direct
kernel accumulated in Half (a real ~3.5% error): np.sum(ones((4096,3), f16), axis=0)
returned [4096,4096,4096] where NumPy returns [2048,2048,2048], and the Double flat path
could differ in the last ULP.
Fix: reproduce NumPy exactly in a FLOAT32 SHADOW accumulator — the reduce output is
allocated Single and narrowed to Half once at the end (ReduceAdd), never accumulating in
Half.
New kernel (ILKernelGenerator.Reduction.Half.cs):
- PairwiseFoldHalf — NumPy's HALF_pairwise_sum: widen each f16->f32 (Giesen, proven
0-diff vs npy_half_to_float over all 65536 patterns) and accumulate in float32 with
the pairwise tree (blocksize 128, eight accumulators, split kept a multiple of 8). The
AVX2 leaf maps the eight accumulators onto one Vector256<float>; the strided leaf keeps
the scalar eight-accumulator block. Bit-for-bit np.add.reduce(float16).
- HalfSumKernel — per-chunk reduce into the float32 shadow. PINNED (contiguous inner
reduced axis / flat): fold the stripe pairwise, RoundToF16 the running slot, so
sum(ones(4096)) == 4096. SLAB (reduced axis outer): each kept slot accumulates across
the outer steps with a per-step RoundToF16, so it SATURATES like NumPy —
sum(ones((4096,3)), axis=0) == [2048,2048,2048]; 4x-unrolled AVX2 body, bit-identical
to the scalar per-element round.
- RoundToF16 == widen(narrow(x)) computed in float32 (no half<->memory round-trip),
verified bit-exact to HalfToFloatScalarExact(SingleToHalfBits(v)) over 8M floats incl.
specials.
Routing:
- Default.Reduction.Add.cs — the Half AXIS sum now accumulates in Single (was Double)
and narrows to Half; the NDIter gate accepts (Sum, Half, Single). Half MEAN stays on
the Double accumulator; an explicit dtype request is honored by the normal path.
- ILKernelGenerator.Reduction.cs — routes (Half, Single, Sum) to HalfSumKernel; the
(Half, Double) route stays for MEAN.
- DefaultEngine.ReductionOp.cs — the flat SumElementwiseHalfFallback folds the whole
array in float32 (C-/F-contiguous in memory order; strided/transposed/broadcast via
ascontiguousarray then C order) and narrows once with SingleToHalfBits; empty -> +0.
Scope: SUM only (flat + axis). Half PROD/MIN/MAX unchanged (Direct path); Half MEAN
unchanged (Double accumulate). Reuses the already-internal Giesen widen/narrow helpers
(HalfToFloatScalarExact / HalfBitsToFloatExact / SingleToHalfBits) from the cast kernels.
…erage jobs The PR's CI failed on every platform because the branch was developed and validated on Windows only. All fixes are scoped to test files, one workflow, and regenerated coverage artifacts — no product/src changes. test job (all platforms): - T1_33_AsNumpyDtypeName_Char_MisreportsSize: AsNumpyDtypeName became a public static extension method, but the test still looked it up with NonPublic and got null. Bind Public|NonPublic|Static. - BufferReleaseSweepTests.NoOperationDefersItsBufferRelease: np.linspace, np.nonzero and convolve (full) strand one pooled buffer per call. Since convolve/correlate moved onto the shared sliding-dot engine, MaterializeForSliding(v["::-1"]) copies a sliced view into an undisposed buffer in ALL modes (the old "mode full measures 0" note is stale). These are pre-existing deferred releases, so add them to KnownDeferred — the sweep's sanctioned backlog list, tracked by the [OpenBugs] KnownDeferredReleases_StillDeferring test. test job (Linux/macOS only — host libm): - Sin/Cos_Float32_MatchesNumPyBitForBit: inputs past the Cody-Waite reduction limit are handed to the platform libm exactly as NumPy does, so their last bit is host-specific; NumPy's expected bytes were probed from the MSVC win-amd64 wheel. Pin only those cases on Windows via HostLibmPast(); the polynomial range and the NaN/inf specials keep asserting on every OS. - InverseHyperbolic Real_Arctanh_Float64_DomainAndEdges and Ufunc_Where_LeavesMaskedSlotsUntouched: arctanh delegates to Math.Atanh (the CRT); glibc's atanh(0.5) differs from ucrtbase by 1 ULP. New ShouldMatchCrt() asserts exact on Windows, correctly-rounded (1e-12) elsewhere. interop-test job (all platforms): - Backend_IsOpenBlas* hard-assert OpenBlasEngine.Enabled, but the bundled OpenBLAS binaries are gitignored and the interop job never staged them, so TryEnable found no library and Enabled stayed false. Add a "Stage OpenBLAS native assets" step (fetch_openblas.py, stdlib-only) before the build, so the current RID's native library is copied into the test output — matching the build-nuget job. Verify strong naming job: - dotnet pack on a GeneratePackageOnBuild=true multi-targeted project yields NU5026 (the outer Pack runs before the per-TFM DLLs stage). Override -p:GeneratePackageOnBuild=false for the throwaway signing pack. Deploy Docs / API coverage job: - coverage/generated was stale: np.random.bytes now returns NDArray<byte>. - benchmark/coverage/generated was stale: nancumsum, nancumprod, bmat, default_rng, random_integers and bytes were added without refreshing it. Regenerated both with the pinned numpy 2.4.2.
…terop native diagnostic
Follow-up after the full journey3 state ran CI. Strong-naming, T1_33, arctanh,
the lifetime sweep and the ubuntu sin/cos gate all went green; this addresses
what remained. Still test-files / workflow / regenerated-data only.
Deploy Docs "API coverage" job (Verify checked-in dashboard data):
- The dashboard generators pick the FIRST .cs file declaring a type with a
default pathlib sort, which is case-INSENSITIVE on Windows but case-SENSITIVE
on Linux. A Windows regen therefore credited Generator.Choice.cs while the
Linux CI credited Generator.Choice.Sampler.cs ('.S' < '.c'), so the diff
failed. Sort both scans by the POSIX string in coverage/generate_coverage.py
and benchmark/scripts/audit_coverage.py so a local (Windows) regen is
byte-identical to CI. Regenerated coverage/generated accordingly.
test job (macOS sin/cos):
- HostLibmPast() skipped only FINITE past-Cody-Waite inputs, but macOS libm
returns a POSITIVE NaN for sin(+inf)/cos(+inf) where NumPy's MSVC win-amd64
wheel returns a NEGATIVE one — also a libm-fallback case. Extend the gate to
skip ±inf on non-Windows too; a NaN input stays portable (NumSharp's own
kernel blanks it) and keeps asserting everywhere.
interop-test job (OpenBLAS still not the default backend on any platform):
- The staging step fetches all 8 RIDs (8/8 verified in CI) yet
OpenBlasEngine.Enabled stays false. Add a self-heal + diagnostic step after
Build: copy the staged runtimes into the test output (RID-specific native
assets don't always flow to a portable no-RID build across a ProjectReference)
and log the landed assets plus the .so's ldd deps, so the next run shows
whether it's a content-flow gap or a genuine native load failure.
…oss-platform sort
The API-coverage job's second diff ("Verify checked-in Tests & Oracle dashboard
data") records each test's source LINE NUMBER, and the earlier CI-fix commits
shifted them: T1_33 gained a 2-line comment, the sin/cos and arctanh gates added
helper methods, and the lifetime KnownDeferred list grew. Regenerate
test/inventory/generated so the committed line numbers match the edited sources.
Also sort generate_test_inventory.py's two Path scans (rglob *.cs, glob *.jsonl)
by the POSIX string — the same Windows-vs-Linux case-sensitivity fix applied to
the coverage generators — so a local Windows regen is byte-identical to the Linux CI.
…rom PR diff counts
The journey3 PR diff was ~1.06M lines / 1502 files, but ~95% of that is
machine-generated data that is committed on purpose yet never reviewed
line-by-line: benchmark history snapshots, benchmark/coverage report dumps,
the regenerated Tests & Oracle inventory, and the fuzz-oracle corpora.
Mark those DATA subtrees (not source or hand-written docs) with two attributes:
- -diff Git treats the file as binary, so GitHub renders it
as 'Binary file not shown' and it contributes
0 additions / 0 deletions to the PR line count.
- linguist-generated=true Collapsed by default in the 'Files changed' view
and excluded from the repo language statistics.
Paths matched:
benchmark/history/**
benchmark/coverage/**
coverage/generated/**
test/inventory/generated/**
docs/website-src/docs/data/**
test/NumSharp.Tests.Oracle/Fuzz/corpus/**
Scope is deliberately limited to data-only subtrees, so hand-written source
(src/**), tests, and narrative docs (e.g. docs/website-src/docs/*.md) stay
fully reviewable. Verified with 'git check-attr': the six subtrees resolve to
'diff: unset' + 'linguist-generated: true' while NDArray.cs and
benchmarks-dashboard.md resolve to 'unspecified'.
Effect on the journey3 diff: ~828k generated lines across 89 files become
binary/uncounted, taking the reviewable count from ~1.06M to ~187k. This is a
display/attribution change only -- git history and file contents are unchanged;
GitHub applies these rules from .gitattributes at the branch head when it
renders the master...journey3 diff.
Three independent root causes, one per failing job/OS, all verified against real NumPy 2.4.2 and the bundled scipy-openblas 0.3.31.22.0. 1) test job (all 3 OS) — Half_Sum_AccumulatesInFloat32_NotFloat16 asserted a STALE expectation. It expected np.sum(ones((4096,2),f16), axis=0) == [4096,4096], but NumPy's HALF_add reduce narrows the float32 accumulator to float16 PER ORIENTATION (npy_float_to_half per inner-loop call), so an AXIS sum SATURATES: real NumPy 2.4.2 returns [2048,2048] (2048 + 1 == 2048 in float16). The committed WCN fix (32732a0) already produces this — the test was written before it. Only a FLAT sum folds the whole contiguous stripe in float32 and reaches 4096. The test now pins both: flat np.sum(ones(4096,f16)) == 4096 (the float32-accumulation claim the method name makes) AND axis-0 == [2048,2048] (the per-orientation saturation). Verified in-process: NumSharp already returns 4096 / [2048,2048] / [5,8,11,7], bit-matching NumPy. 2) interop-test on Windows (26 *_ByteExact LAPACK/SVD/QR/Eig/Pinv/Polyfit tests) — the job installed "numpy>=2.0", which now resolves to numpy 2.5.2, whose bundled openblas is a DIFFERENT build than the scipy-openblas 0.3.31.22.0 NumSharp bundles (the one numpy 2.4.2 pins). Byte-exact parity is a claim about ONE specific binary, so the two sides diverged ~1 ULP and every byte-exact test went red. Pinned the interop numpy to ==2.4.2 so both sides call the byte-identical library. Kept in lockstep with tools/openblas-manifest.json's numpy_version. 3) interop-test on Linux + macOS (5 Backend_IsOpenBlas* hard-asserts) — OpenBlasEngine.Enabled came up false because fetch_openblas.py staged ONLY the main library. A scipy-openblas wheel carries its Fortran runtime beside it (Linux: libgfortran + libquadmath in lib/; macOS: + libgcc_s in .dylibs/), and auditwheel/delocate patch the main library's DT_NEEDED / LC_LOAD_DYLIB to the content-hashed names, so a system libgfortran can never satisfy them — the vendored files MUST be co-staged or dlopen() fails and the backend silently stays uninstalled. fetch_openblas.py now co-stages every native member from the same already-verified wheel, mirroring the wheel's layout so the main library's own search path resolves them unchanged (Linux native/ via $ORIGIN RUNPATH; macOS .dylibs/ sibling via @loader_path/../.dylibs). The .csproj copies the current RID's .dylibs to the same relative place (no-op on Linux/Windows); other RIDs' .dylibs ride the existing recursive pack item. Windows is self-contained (single DLL) and unchanged. Verified: the staged tree is correct per platform, and the bundled backend still loads on Windows (Enabled, IsBundledLibrary, DYNAMIC_ARCH Haswell).
…ds (Accelerate otherwise) Follow-up to 5e70a9d. Pinning numpy==2.4.2 fixed Windows/Linux interop but NOT macOS: verified empirically that numpy 2.4.2 ships TWO Apple-silicon wheels — macosx_14_0_arm64 links Apple ACCELERATE (bundles no OpenBLAS; _multiarray_umath references vecLib), while macosx_11_0_arm64 bundles scipy-openblas 0.3.31.22.0 (the exact build NumSharp bundles). On the macos-26 (Apple silicon) runner pip prefers the newer tag, so a plain install links Accelerate — a wholly different BLAS/LAPACK — and every *_ByteExact interop test diverges. This is why macOS failed while Windows (OpenBLAS by default) passed, and why bumping the bundled OpenBLAS version cannot help: macOS numpy is not using OpenBLAS at all. Fix: on the macOS arm64 runner, `pip download --platform macosx_11_0_arm64` numpy==2.4.2 and install that wheel, so the live numpy calls scipy-openblas 0.3.31.22.0 — identical to NumSharp's bundle, same DYNAMIC_ARCH dispatch on the same CPU, single-threaded on the small test matrices — exactly the conditions Linux already satisfies. Windows/Linux keep the plain version pin (their wheels are OpenBLAS by default). Logs numpy.show_config() for future triage.
…, fix power(int/bool, neg-int) memory-safety bug, tolerate arm64 interop last-bit divergence Greens the PR #628 failures that the numpy-pin / vendored-deps / macOS-OpenBLAS-wheel fixes (5e70a9d, b3ba6bc) had UNMASKED once the `test` job stopped short-circuiting at the Half test. Every remaining red is one of two classes: a host/arch bit-exactness artifact no numpy pin can remove (handled with the established Inconclusive-off-pinned-host model), or one genuine Core bug. ## Core bug — power with a negative integer exponent (ALL OS; ErrorsFull red) Two defects, both in Default.Power.cs: 1. ContainsNegative's per-type scans read the exponent with nd.GetInt32(long) — the COORDINATE overload (params long[]) — so a flat index i is read as the 1-D coordinate [i] into axis 0. For a 2-D/(4,5), strided, or broadcast exponent this walks off axis 0 and trips Debug.Fail("index < Count, Memory corruption expected"): an out-of-bounds read (a real memory-safety bug in RELEASE, where the assert is compiled out) instead of NumPy's clean ValueError. Now reads by FLAT index through Storage.GetAtIndex<T> (Shape.TransformOffset), correct for contiguous / strided / broadcast / non-zero-offset layouts. 2. The negative-exponent guard keyed "integer loop" off lhs.IsInteger() && rhs.IsInteger(), which is FALSE for a bool base — so power(bool, negative_int) skipped the guard and returned a result where NumPy raises. The loop is the PROMOTED type (bool**int32 -> int32, bool**bool -> int8). Now keyed off ResolvePowerResultType (the same promotion the compute path uses), which also keeps the uint64**signed -> float64 NEP50 case non-raising (power(uint64,-1)=0.5). Retires the now-obsolete MisalignedRegistry K6/K8 excuses (bool-loop-missing-guard; int-path-trips-assert): all 88 errors_full power cases now raise the clean ValueError bit-for-bit. ## Host-pinned oracle tiers (Linux+macOS; test job) Unary / NumPyFloat32Kernels / Fft / Precision are authored against the win-amd64 CRT libm (ucrtbase) and NumSharp's host SIMD reduction widths — the transcendental kernels' Math.* hand-offs, the FFT twiddles, and Vector<T> var/std coalesce differently under glibc (Linux) and clang/NEON (macOS-arm64). Hard-gated on Windows, Inconclusive elsewhere (new RunHostLibmCorpus helper) — the matmul_parity / random_parity_host pattern. No coverage lost: every PORTABLE cell in these tiers is a deterministic NumSharp kernel, green off-Windows by construction whenever green on Windows; only the libm/SIMD-width cells (which have no cross-platform byte contract) can differ. ## arm64 / macOS interop cells (interop job) - Convolve_SmallRealKernel_StaysManaged / Lstsq_ByteExact_ShapesAndB / Polyfit_Full_ByteExact: 1-ULP cross-ARCHITECTURE differences on arm64 (managed NEON 128-bit reduction vs x64 AVX2 256-bit; Apple-silicon LAPACK gelsd residual rounding). New SkipByteExactOnArm64 helper -> Inconclusive on arm64; x64 (Windows+Linux) stays STRICT byte-exact. - SharedMemory_Buf_IsViewable: a macOS pythonnet buffer-lease timing race at shm.close(), not a NumSharp viewability defect -> Inconclusive on macOS. - NotACBlasProvider_Throws: a managed .NET PE is LoadLibrary-able on Windows (loads, then the missing cblas_sgemm -> EntryPointNotFoundException) but dlopen rejects it outright on Linux/macOS (not ELF/Mach-O -> DllNotFoundException). Assert the platform-correct exception; the invariant (a non-CBLAS file must never install the backend) holds identically on every OS. Verified on Windows: full FuzzMatrix 85 pass / 0 fail / 3 host-pin-skip; power value+error tiers (Binary_DivModPower, DecimalPower, ErrorsFull) green; MatmulParityBackendTests 9/0 fail; net8.0 + net10.0 compile clean. The arm64/macOS Inconclusive paths are no-ops on x64 (compile-verified) and are adjudicated by the next CI run on the mac runner.
…ase with original site bodies The disposal sweep's goal (return transient NDArray buffers to the SizeBucketedBufferPool synchronously instead of stranding them on the finalizer queue — a 1.6x-3x win at small N / hot loops) is now carried by ONE instrument instead of per-temp bookkeeping: NDScope, an ambient allocation scope (the TorchSharp DisposeScope pattern). Mechanism - NDScope (Backends/NDScope.cs): [ThreadStatic] scope stack; every NDArray constructed while a scope is open is tracked via a single hook in NDArray.InitializeArc (the funnel all ctors pass). Disposing the scope disposes every tracked array not yielded via scope.Returns(..). Disposal is ordinary ARC release (frees only at refcount 0), so releasing a base whose view was yielded never corrupts — the manual sweep's exact safety, with registration automated. - Returns(x) / Returns(x[]) yield the result (O(1) via a TrackingScope back-pointer on NDArray) and re-track it into the PARENT scope, so an enclosing scope reclaims a dropped inner result. Returns on an UNTRACKED array (input passthrough, caller's @out) is a provable no-op — "wrap every egress" is a safe blanket rule. Out-params egress via result = scope.Returns(temp). NDScope.Detach(x) for arrays cached past every scope. - Ownership rules become structural: inputs are constructed before the scope opens and are never tracked (rule R2 with no ReferenceEquals guards); the return is the one egress (R1). Scopes nest per thread; worker threads without a scope degrade safely to the finalizer. Sites (bodies restored to their ORIGINAL minimal form + Open/Returns only) - np.logical_and/or/not/xor, np.roll, np.isin (helpers 100% scope-free), np.ptp (both overloads), np.cov, np.corrcoef, QuantileEngine.Compute (median/percentile/quantile/nan*), correlate/convolve, AxisSort Sort/SortInPlace/ArgSort + DriveAllButAxis (covers the 1-D expand_dims promotion views for sort/argsort/partition alike), engine BooleanMask get+set, NonZero (tuple yield via Returns(T[])), ClipNDArray, the fancy-index FetchIndices/ SetIndices 15-way dispatchers, and the typed generics surface (&, |, ^ operators, string/ Slice indexers, flat, T, explicit T[] conversion — the MakeGeneric alias-handoff sites). - This REPLACES the earlier per-temp inline Dispose/ReferenceEquals sweep and the interim Consuming/DisposeUnless extension combinators (NDArray.Lifetime.cs removed before landing). Proof (all green) - test/NumSharp.Tests/Lifetime/NDScopeTests.cs: tracking, yield/no-op/re-parenting, out-param egress, caller-@out passthrough, view-over-tracked-base ARC safety, exception paths, Detach, dispose idempotence, 10k open/close pooling, broadcast read-only inputs, cross-thread yielded results, zero-strand counters over the scoped surface (200 mixed cycles x 14 ops, deficit <= 8 buffers total), 200-drop nested reclamation, and value smoke over every migrated op. - test/NumSharp.Tests/Lifetime/NDScopeStressTests.cs: 8 threads x 1500 mixed cycles (120,000 scoped calls) with 0 value errors and zero strand slope; 8-thread nested drop-through-parent (3,200 results all reclaimed, none early); 4-producer/2-consumer cross-thread hand-off of 3,200 yielded arrays; mixed ops under a forced-GC antagonist. - BufferReleaseSweepTests: KnownDeferred stays EMPTY — every previously-deferring op (convolve, fancy get/set, nonzero, sort/argsort, roll, clip, logical_*, array_equal, boolean mask, quantile staging) measures 0 strands/call through the scopes. - FuzzMatrix 88/88 bit-exact vs NumPy 2.4.2; full suite 13,986 passed / 0 failed. Notes - Granularity rule (documented): scope a CALL, not a caller loop — batch-disposing thousands of same-size buffers overflows their pool bucket (excess freed, not pooled; measured). Hot loops still `using` the results they receive (two-audience contract unchanged). - No static NDArray field caches exist in Core (audited), so nothing needs Detach today. - DISPOSAL-GUIDELINES.md: NDScope documented as the standard instrument; worked examples updated to the shipped scope forms; "never automate" sharpened to "never automate LIVENESS INFERENCE" (the reverted refcount-guessing ring stays banned; NDScope automates registration only). - IL-weaver variant (inject Open/Returns at build time) explored and deferred: the scope's two visible lines per method are the manual form of exactly what the weaver would emit.
…t runtime kernels Continue the OptimizeAndInline sweep (5a69cfe) into the runtime compute kernels the prior SIMD/bit-transform pass did not reach. Value-neutral: [MethodImpl] only affects JIT tiering/inlining, never computed results. NumSharp.Core builds clean (verified in an isolated detached-HEAD worktree, so the check is independent of concurrent uncommitted work in the tree). Three files, all genuine per-element / per-chunk RUNTIME kernels (not IL emitters), annotated to skip the tiered-JIT tier-0 penalty (the documented ~27x-slower first calls) and — where they are small — to inline: 1. Backends/Iterators/NDScalarReductionKernels.cs (+ using CompilerServices): the 18 struct inner-loop reduction kernels (INDReducingInnerLoop<T>.Execute for Half/Complex/Decimal sum/prod/min/max/argmin/argmax/any/all). Driven by the struct-generic ExecuteReducing<TKernel,TAccum> path, which the JIT devirtualizes + inlines (accumulator stays in a register); OptimizeAndInline reinforces that and lifts them to tier-1 from the first call. 2. Math/NDArray.SlidingDot.cs: the 5 scalar/BLAS sliding multiply-accumulate kernels (SlidingBlas/SlidingHalf/SlidingComplex/SlidingDecimal/SlidingBoolean) that back np.correlate / np.convolve for the non-Vector<T> dtypes. Matches the file's existing SlidingSimd/DotSimd (AggressiveOptimization — loop kernels reached via type-switch dispatch, so inlining is a structural no-op). 3. Utilities/QuickSelect.cs: the scalar introselect family that backs np.median/percentile/quantile/partition/argpartition alongside the already- annotated block-Hoare path — StorePivot (inline+optimize, a hot leaf) plus IntroSelect/Partition/InsertionSort/HeapSort/DownHeap across all four value/Comparison/index/index+Comparison variants (AggressiveOptimization, matching the file's IntroSelectBlock/PartitionBlock choice). Deliberately EXCLUDED (audited): pure IL emitters (they build a DynamicMethod ONCE — AggressiveOptimization would only add optimizing-JIT startup cost for a one-shot method while the emitted kernel is already tier-1); per-call orchestration/dispatch layers (Default.Reduction.Add.cs) and np-layer compositions (np.average.cs); and already-appropriately-annotated files (SimdMatMul.*, SimdDot, StrideDetector, bincount, InfoOf, IndexCollector). Every added line is a [MethodImpl] attribute or the one using directive; no logic changed (44 attributes, 0 deletions).
…ope.Attach Phase A of the NDScope completion work: every remaining known finalizer-only strand site and the composition-heavy np.* boundary methods now open an ambient reclamation scope, keeping their ORIGINAL bodies and routing egress through scope.Returns(...). 20 methods across 15 files join the 17 sites of a4d7123b. Strand sites closed (previously leaked wrappers/buffers to the finalizer): - np.where: where_internal + the three object-scalar overloads. Reclaims the broadcast_arrays wrappers, bool/dtype astype conversions, scalar promotions and asanyarray temps; all six result returns yielded. - Fancy-index dispatchers: the instance FetchIndices(object[]) getter (18 NDArray returns wrapped; normalization coercions, mask MakeGeneric aliases, nonzero components, slice/scalar index arrays, multi-advanced grids and premature-slicing views all reclaimed) and the instance SetIndices(object[], values) setter (void - scope only, same temp classes). - CountNonZero flat + axis (the per-dispatch MakeGeneric alias; axis result yielded). - nanargmax/nanargmin (all four overloads): the NaN mask, the all-NaN-guard reductions and the full-size replaced copy are reclaimed per call. - nancumsum/nancumprod: the full-size _replace_nan_for_scan copy is reclaimed; a caller @out passes through Returns as the usual no-op. Composition adoption (scope at the public/engine boundary, helpers pristine): - Set ops: union1d, IntersectCore (both bare and return_indices tuple forms), setxor1d, setdiff1d - the unique/ravel/concatenate/sort/argsort/take temps and adjacency masks die at exit. - ReduceStd/ReduceVar (engine): reclaims the fallback double-cast input and the IL path's pre-cast double result (the axis f32/f16 cell stranded one full-size double buffer per call). - AverageCore: all four public entry points covered; each tuple component is yielded individually, and a dropped scl on returned:false paths is reclaimed. - take_along_axis: the axis=None contiguous re-lay + reshape view and the int64 index cast are reclaimed. Note: the scope's tracked list also strong-roots those temps through the raw-pointer kernel call, so the ARC/JIT dead-local hazard documented in Default.NonZero cannot arise under a scope. - unique family: np.unique (static UniqueResult wrapper), unique_values, unique_counts, unique_inverse, unique_all - internals reclaimed, every result-struct member yielded (the inverse reshape view is yielded over its tracked base, ARC I3). New API: NDScope.Attach(nd) - adopt an untracked array into the CURRENT scope (the caller-side hot-loop pattern: attach instead of a per-result using), or MOVE one between scopes (the old registration is cleared first; an array is owned by at most one scope). No-op when no scope is open or already tracked here. Detach's inverse; same thread-affinity contract. Gates (all green): - NDScopeTests 20 (3 new Attach contracts: adopt-then-reclaim, cross-scope move with stale-slot skip, no-scope no-op) + widened ScopedSurface_ZeroStrandsPerCall (14 -> 29 ops/cycle, deficit still <= 8 over 200 cycles) + value smoke for the whole new surface. - LifetimeCases catalogue +14 entries (isin, the four set ops, take_along_axis, unique_counts, nanargmax axis, nancumsum/nancumprod, where-scalar, axis std/var f32 - the pre-cast-double strand cell - and the existing sweep re-verified): BufferReleaseSweepTests zero-strand slope holds. - FuzzMatrix 88/88 bit-exact vs NumPy 2.4.2 (fresh Core verified by assembly timestamp); full suite 13,989 passed / 0 failed. - Perf sanity (Release, best-of-21, N=1K): np.ptp 1923 ns/call (== the 1930 ns documented baseline - no scope-overhead regression), np.where 932 ns, logical_and 2484 ns; pool hit-rate over the measured window 100.0%. Phase B (the [NDScoped] IL weaver that injects these two lines at build time so the bodies return to their pristine pre-sweep form) follows separately.
…es keep 100% original bodies Phase B of the NDScope completion work. Every scoped boundary method now carries ONLY the [NDScoped] attribute and its pristine pre-sweep body; the ambient reclamation scope (prologue, try/finally dispose, egress yields) is injected into the IL at build time by tools/NumSharp.Weaver. 53 methods woven per TFM. THE WEAVER (tools/NumSharp.Weaver — Mono.Cecil 0.11.6 console tool): - Transform per [NDScoped] method: scope = NDScope.Open() into a fresh local BEFORE the protected region (the C# using shape); the whole original body becomes the try of a try/finally whose finally is scope.Dispose(); every original ret is rewritten — the CLR forbids ret inside a protected region, so wrapping the body forces every return through a rewritable seam. Each ret is MUTATED IN PLACE into the first replacement instruction (branches and nested-handler boundaries that referenced it stay valid): return value to a local, NDArray-like values routed through scope.Returns<T>(T) (Returns<T>(T[]) for tuple-style array returns; generic instantiation uses the method's own return type, so NDArray<TDType> operators inside the open generic type weave correctly), each out-NDArray/out-NDArray[] parameter's FINAL value yielded on the success path, then leave to a single epilogue ([ldloc ret;] ret) after the handler. SimplifyMacros before, OptimizeMacros after; existing try/using blocks nest inside the new outer handler (appended last = innermost-first table order the CLR requires). - Decision-table build errors: NDW002 ref-NDArray param (hidden egress), NDW003 carrier-struct return (UniqueResult / ValueTuples of arrays — their members would be handed back disposed; message directs to hand-scope and yield each member; fires BEFORE the already-scoped skip, so an attribute on a hand-scoped carrier errs loudly — verified live on AverageCore, both TFMs), NDW004 iterator/async state machines, NDW005 no body, NDW006 getter-less [NDScoped] property, NDW007 tail-call prefix. - Idempotent: a body already opening an NDScope is skipped (already-scoped), so double-weaving is impossible; verified — forced re-run on the woven dll reports woven 0 / already-scoped 53. - Re-signs with the repo Open.snk via WriterParameters.StrongNameKeyBlob (IL rewriting invalidates the compile-time signature): sn -vf reports VALID; StrongNameTests 6/6. Portable PDB rewritten in place; original sequence points survive (instructions only inserted or mutated), so source stepping still lands on the right lines. MSBUILD WIRING (NumSharp.Core.csproj, NDScopeWeave target): - AfterTargets=CoreCompile BeforeTargets=CopyFilesToOutputDirectory per TFM, on the intermediate assembly. Incremental via a per-TFM NDScopeWeave.marker (Inputs/Outputs); verified skip-on-up-to-date and re-weave-on-recompile. - Weaver project restored+built on demand via two MSBuild task calls with DIFFERENT global-property sets (same-set Restore+Build reuses the pre-restore evaluation and fails the first clean build) and RemoveProperties=TargetFramework;... — the parent inner build's TF global otherwise leaks into the single-TFM tool project (NETSDK1005). - Marker path spelled inline in Inputs/Outputs, NOT via a body-level property: IntermediateOutputPath is assigned by SDK .targets imported AFTER the csproj body, so a body-level capture is empty (hit; the marker landed in the project root). - Escape hatches: -p:SkipNDScopeWeave=true (attributed methods run unscoped — the finalizer backstop, the pre-migration status quo); -p:NDScopeWeaveILVerify=true runs dotnet-ilverify on the woven output. MIGRATION (every scope site -> attribute + original body): - The a4d7123b seventeen: logical_and/or/not/xor, roll, isin, ptp x2, cov, corrcoef, QuantileEngine.Compute, correlate, convolve, AxisSort (Sort/SortInPlace/ArgSort/DriveAllButAxis), BooleanMask/BooleanMaskSet, NonZero (the hand-written GC-rooting finally for materialized is KEPT — orthogonal to the weave), ClipNDArray, Getter static dispatcher (15 typed returns) + Setter static dispatcher, NDArray<T> operators and the this[string]/this[Slice[]]/flat/T accessors + explicit T[] operator (accessor-level attributes; property-level [NDScoped] weaves the getter). - The c1a84f72 Phase A sites: where_internal + 3 object overloads, instance FetchIndices(object[]) (21 returns) + instance SetIndices(object[]), CountNonZero x2, union1d/IntersectCore/setxor1d/setdiff1d, ReduceStd/ReduceVar, take_along_axis, unique_values, nanargmax/nanargmin x4, nancumsum/nancumprod. - Still hand-scoped BY DESIGN (carrier-struct returns the weaver rejects): AverageCore (ValueTuple), np.unique (UniqueResult), unique_counts/unique_inverse/unique_all (result structs) — each yields its members explicitly. VERIFICATION (all against the WOVEN assembly): - Lifetime 30/30 (incl. the widened 29-op zero-strand cycle at deficit <= 8 over 200 cycles) + StrongNameTests 6/6 + FuzzMatrix 88/88 bit-exact + full suite 13,989 passed / 0 failed. - ILVerify DELTA = 0: woven == unwoven error counts (Debug 4247==4247, Release 4194==4194 — the ~4.2K findings are pre-existing unsafe-kernel unverifiability, none introduced by the weave); the pilot methods and the woven dispatchers verify clean individually. - dotnet pack (Release -t:Rebuild, both TFMs): the nupkg lib/net8.0 + lib/net10.0 NumSharp.dll are the WOVEN binaries (weaver dry-run on the extracted dll reports already-scoped 53). DISPOSAL-GUIDELINES.md gains "The weaver — [NDScoped]" (transform, decision table, idempotence, strong-name/symbols, escape hatches, when to hand-scope), the TL;DR now names the attribute as the standard application, and the NDScope API section documents Attach.
…s + [NDScoped] weave coverage gate Audit pass over NDScope and the [NDScoped] IL weaver for robustness and API completeness. Findings verified sound: the tracking model is one Track per object (every concrete NDArray ctor funnels InitializeArc exactly once; the storage-less base ctors don't Track, the allocating/derived ctors do), so Dispose can never reclaim a Returns-yielded array; the weaver correctly handles every ret/out/void/ scalar/array shape including recursive, view-returning (roll) and generic-type operator methods. Three hardening changes: - NDScope.Dispose is now out-of-order safe. Open() hands out a raw IDisposable, so a hand-managed scope can be disposed off the weaver/using LIFO path. Dispose keeps the in-order fast path (this IS t_current -> pop to parent) but, when disposed out of order, splices itself out of the middle of the thread's scope chain, so t_current is never left pointing at -- or through -- a disposed scope. Reclamation correctness is unchanged; this only keeps the ambient stack coherent under public-API misuse. - Debug thread-affinity asserts on Returns/Attach/Detach (matching the existing one on Dispose). These mutate per-scope Lists that are single-thread by contract; the asserts trip a cross-thread touch in Debug instead of racing. Zero false positives under the 8-thread NDScopeStressTests load. - New gate NDScopeWeaveTests: reflects the shipped assembly and asserts every [NDScoped] method (and property accessor) carries an NDScope local -- a necessary consequence of scoping, woven or hand-written. Turns a silently un-run weave (broken NDScopeWeave target, or a -p:SkipNDScopeWeave=true build) red instead of letting those methods quietly revert to the finalizer backstop; a non-vacuity floor guards against the attribute being stripped. A reflection probe confirms 53/53 attributed methods woven, matching the weaver's own report. Two new out-of-order Dispose tests (outer-before-inner, middle-spliced-out) pin the stack-splice behaviour. DISPOSAL-GUIDELINES.md documents the disposal-ordering guarantee, the coverage gate, and the one transform branch (out NDArray/out NDArray[] egress) with no in-tree consumer -- its runtime semantics pinned by OutParameter_Egress_ViaReturns and its IL a structural twin of the return-value path (kept for shape completeness). Gates: Lifetime 27/27, full NumSharp.Tests net8.0 13992/0 (11 skip); weaver reports woven 53, already-scoped 0, re-signed.
… close the coverage gap Audit follow-up to the NDScope/weaver hardening: the scoped set (53) covered the hot reduction/statistics/set-op/selection surface but NOT every composition that owns transient NDArray intermediates. The stats class turned out covered transitively (std/var -> scoped ReduceStd/ReduceVar; median/percentile/quantile + nan* twins -> scoped QuantileEngine), but the linear-algebra and core-math compositions delegated to nothing scoped and reclaimed their temps only via the finalizer. Scope the eight transient owners with [NDScoped] (the weaver injects the scope; sites keep their original bodies): - np.cross multiply/subtract/negative/concatenate/astype fold - np.kron multiply/tile/reshape/broadcast_to - np.outer multiply/expand_dims (the @out param is a caller input -> Returns no-op) - np.tensordot (core) transpose/reshape views + dot product + final reshape-over-product view - np.linalg.matrix_power binary exponentiation (matmul folds; inv for n<0); work=a for n>=0 is an untracked input, results are fresh copies/products - np.diff / np.ediff1d subtract/concatenate/ravel/astype - EinsumContract the einsum contraction core. Its single-operand VIEW path returns a writeable view re-aliased from the OPERAND's storage; under the scope the view is yielded (survives) and keeps the operand buffer alive via ARC, so einsum('ii->i', a)[:] = 1 still writes through to a (pinned by EinsumContractionTests.ViewPath_DiagonalIsAWriteableView_ThatWritesThrough). All eight are safe by the weaver's structural invariant (inputs constructed before the scope opens are never tracked; the return value is yielded; a returned view over a tracked transient stays valid by refcount), so the migration is byte-neutral by construction. Verification (DISPOSAL-GUIDELINES section 12): weaver reports woven 61 (was 53), 0 NDW errors, both TFMs; affected-op tests 410/410 (einsum/tensordot/cross/kron/outer/matrix_power/diff/ediff1d + the einsum writeable-view contract); NDScopeWeaveTests gate 61/61 on net8.0 AND net10.0; FuzzMatrix byte-exactness 88/88; full NumSharp.Tests net8.0 13992/0 (unchanged from baseline). DISPOSAL-GUIDELINES section 11 gains a coverage note: what is covered directly vs transitively, the deliberate non-targets (single-kernel ufuncs, views, kernel-driven nan-mean/std/var, the thin product wrappers inner/vdot/vecdot/matvec/vecmat), and the remaining opportunistic tail (grid/creation, N-D FFT, polynomial) to migrate when a profile shows them hot.
…r ([NDScoped])
Exhaustive-sweep follow-up: after the LinAlg/Math tier (e2cb6600), walk the remaining np.*
composition surface and scope the transient owners that carry clear reclaim value. Woven count
61 -> 78 (+17), each site keeps its original body (weaver-injected).
Newly scoped (all weaver-compatible NDArray returns, no static NDArray caching, safe by the
weaver's structural invariant):
- linalg.norm abs/power/sum/sqrt/max reduction composition (hot: optimization loops)
- linalg.multi_dot Cormen-ordered chain of pairwise dot products
- vander per-column power composition
- polynomial family poly, polyval (Horner), polyder, polyint, polyadd/polysub (PolyAddSub),
polymul (convolution) — NDArray-returning, own concatenate/multiply temps
- N-D FFT (8) fft2/ifft2/fftn/ifftn/rfft2/rfftn/irfft2/irfftn — each RawFftNd is a pure
per-axis 1-D composition owning one intermediate NDArray per axis; the @out
param is a caller input (Returns no-op). Byte-exactness is delicate here, so
re-confirmed against the fft.jsonl fuzz tier.
Deferred (documented in DISPOSAL-GUIDELINES section 11), NOT scoped:
- carrier-return compositions the weaver rejects (NDW003) -> hand-scope if profiled hot:
meshgrid/mgrid/ogrid (grid result structs), polydiv/polyfit (tuple / PolyfitResult),
and the factorization tuples svd/qr/eig/eigh/lstsq/slogdet (also backend-only).
- one-shot structural ops pad/insert/delete/block and the r_/c_ construction indexers -
section 11 rates these low-priority (not hot-loop / small-N); migrate opportunistically.
Verification (section 12): weaver woven 78, 0 NDW errors, both TFMs; FuzzMatrix byte-exactness
88/88 (fft/poly/linalg tiers exercised); affected-op tests 404/404 (Fourier / Polynomial /
linalg norm+multi_dot / vander + the NDScopeWeaveTests gate at 78/78 on net8.0 AND net10.0); full
NumSharp.Tests net8.0 13992/0 (unchanged from baseline). A lone RandomParity_MultivariateNormal
'failure' seen while filtering was a pre-existing [OpenBugs] test the ~Norm filter matched by
coincidence (MultivariateNormal), not a regression.
…ted functions The existing nesting tests use HAND-WRITTEN scopes (NDScopeTests) or assert structure (NDScopeWeaveTests proves every [NDScoped] method carries a scope local). Nothing drove the WOVEN Core methods themselves through nesting behaviorally. New NDScopeWeaveNestingTests does, in three shapes, each pinning values + zero net buffer strands + untouched inputs: - Real woven-calls-woven IL: np.roll(a) with axis=null recurses into the woven roll(ravel, shift, 0), so two woven scopes nest with NO hand-written scope anywhere. The zero-strand variant proves BOTH nested scopes reclaim (a leaked inner scope would read ~N strands). - Enclosing scope over many woven calls (cross/diff/roll/kron/outer/vander/polyval/linalg.norm) whose results are all DROPPED: each woven method's child scope re-parents its result up to the enclosing scope, which reclaims them on close; inputs stay untouched. Plus a woven result fed into another woven call under the same scope (result-flow between nested functions). - A deep chain of nested functions (NestLevel reproduces the weaver's exact Open/temp/Returns pattern) with a real woven roll at the leaf: value + input-safety + a zero-strand variant, and the exception path — a throw after nested woven calls under an enclosing scope reclaims at every level and leaves inputs intact. 7 tests, green on net8.0 AND net10.0; the full Lifetime.NDScope suite is 34/34.
… model) Evaluation-driven tests validating that NDScope is thread-CONFINED: the scope stack is [ThreadStatic] (t_current + single-slot t_pool), every instance field is touched only by the owning thread, and there is no shared mutable state and no lock. New NDScopeThreadSafetyTests fills the angles NDScopeStressTests leaves: - SharedReadOnlyInput_ConcurrentScopedOps_UntouchedAndCorrect: one shared array read by woven scoped ops on 8 threads x 500 iters; asserts it stays untracked (TrackingScope == null), alive, and value-correct (roll flat[0] == 64-k) throughout. - ThreadLocalIsolation_WorkerDoesNotSeeMainScope_NorIsReclaimed: with a scope open on the main thread, a worker thread sees NDScope.Current == null and its array is not tracked by (nor reclaimed by) the main scope — direct proof of thread-local isolation. - ConcurrentScopes_EachThreadSeesOnlyItsOwnStack: 8 threads open/nest/close scopes concurrently, each always sees its own scope as current and its own temps tracked by its own scope. - CrossThreadHandoff_ReceiverAttachesIntoScope_Reclaims: full detach -> hand off -> NDScope.Attach into the RECEIVER's scope -> reclaim-on-close cycle across threads. - ManyThreads_NestedWoven_Concurrent_ZeroErrors_BoundedStrands: the woven nested op (roll axis=null -> roll) on 8 threads x 800 iters, value-correct with a bounded strand slope. The Debug thread-affinity asserts on Returns/Attach/Detach are live during these runs and never trip. 5 repeated net8.0 runs + net10.0 all green; full Lifetime suite 46/46.
…orm overload gap
Cross-referencing the [NDScoped] set against the AUTHORITATIVE api inventory
(coverage/NumSharp.Tools.ApiInventory: 562 public functions across np/ndarray/np.linalg/
np.fft/np.random) for the first time surfaced composition gaps the earlier directory-based
sweep missed. Woven 78 -> 86 (+8), each an NDArray-returning composition:
- linalg.pinv conjugate + svd + reciprocal + matmul (backend-only)
- linalg.cond svdvals + divide
- linalg.matrix_rank svd + amax + multiply + sum (>=2d path)
- linalg.tensorinv reshape + inv + reshape
- linalg.tensorsolve reshape + solve + reshape
- linalg.norm the int[]-axis overload (ravel + abs^2/dot + sqrt + reshape) -- an
OVERLOAD-COVERAGE gap: the int? overload was scoped, this workhorse (also
the target of vector_norm/matrix_norm) was not, so a direct int[] call leaked.
- fft.hfft / ihfft conjugate + irfft/rfft + norm swap (Hermitian composition)
All byte-neutral by the weaver's structural invariant. Verified: woven 86, 0 NDW errors;
FuzzMatrix 88/88; 602 linalg/fft tests + NDScopeWeaveTests gate at 86/86.
Honest status: this does NOT yet make coverage exhaustive against the inventory -- a real
composition tail remains (linalg eigvals/roots, ndarray.choose, np extract/place/angle/
searchsorted/mask_indices, structural append/stack/tile/bmat, and the entire unaudited
np.random). Carrier-returns polydiv/polyfit/svd/qr/eig tuples stay hand-scope-deferred.
…tion of 10 np.* functions Per-function verification on two axes at once: (1) correctness vs NumPy across representative cases, and (2) allocation discipline -- every buffer the function allocates (internal transients AND result) is reclaimed, measured as pool acquisitions - releases over 200 cycles with the result disposed each cycle (a single undisposed internal per call reads as ~200; inputs are also asserted untouched -- never disposed, never adopted into the function's scope). Five heavy COMPOSITIONS that drive many np.* internally -- np.cross (astype/moveaxis/multiply/ subtract/negative/concatenate), np.corrcoef (cov/dot/sqrt/divide/outer/clip), np.union1d (ravel/ concatenate/unique), np.kron (multiply/tile/reshape/broadcast_to), np.vander (power/concatenate) -- and five kernel/manipulation ops -- np.clip, np.sort, np.take_along_axis, np.roll (2d axis=null, woven roll nesting woven roll), np.where. Measured deficits are EXACTLY 0 for all ten, and the acq/rel counts confirm the compositions really do allocate internal transients that all get reclaimed: corrcoef 1600/1600 (8 buffers/ cycle), vander 1000/1000 (5/cycle), cross 600/600 (3/cycle), union1d 400/400 (2/cycle) -- so the scope is doing real work, not passing because there was nothing to reclaim. 5 repeated net8.0 runs + net10.0 green; full Lifetime suite passes together.
…o double-free) Covers the interaction of a hand-written NDArray.Dispose() on a TRACKED array with the scope's later reclamation sweep, which disposes the same array again. Load-bearing property: freed EXACTLY once -- Dispose is CAS-idempotent, so the sweep's second dispose is a no-op and the buffer is never double-returned to the pool (a double-free would hand the same buffer to two later allocations = silent aliasing corruption). Seven cases, asserting via pool-counter deltas + IsReleased + IsDisposed: - ManualDisposeOfTrackedTemp_ScopeSweepIsNoOp_FreedExactlyOnce: manual Dispose frees the buffer and leaves the temp STILL tracked; the sweep visits it again and must add ZERO further releases. - DoubleManualDispose_ThenScopeSweep_FreedOnce: two hand disposes + the sweep = one free. - ManualDisposeBase_YieldedView_StaysValid_FreedOnceAtViewDispose: dispose a base whose reshape view is yielded; ARC keeps the buffer alive, the view reads correctly, freed once at the view's dispose. - ManualDisposeThenReturnsSame_Graceful_NoCorruption: disposing what you return (a user bug) yields a disposed array gracefully, never a crash/double-free; the input stays untouched. - ExceptionAfterManualDispose_ScopeFinallySweep_FreedOnce_InputUntouched: throw after a manual dispose; the finally sweep must not free the temp again; input untouched. - MixedManualAndScopeReclaim_Balanced_NoDoubleFree_NoLeak: the §6 mid-method direct-Dispose pattern mixed with scope reclaim over 200 cycles; deficit >= 0 (no double-free = Releases > Acquisitions) AND <= 8 (no leak). - ManualDisposeThenScopeSweep_NoAliasing_HostileProbe: churn the pattern 100x, then allocate two arrays, fill with distinct values, and prove no cross-corruption (the strong aliasing detector). Result: flawless. All freed exactly once; a fixed exact-count assertion had to account for the scalar transient that 'input * 2' allocates (the sweep correctly reclaims it) -- switched that case to arange (one buffer, no hidden transient). 3 net8.0 runs + net10.0 green; Lifetime suite 63/63.
…ey3 branch state The Deploy Docs `api-coverage` gate regenerates test/inventory/generated and diffs it against the checked-in snapshot. The branch had drifted +56 test methods (13,703 -> 13,759) as the NDScope lifetime suites (NumSharp.Tests.Lifetime.* — BufferReleaseSweepTests / NDScopeManualDisposeTests / …) landed without regenerating the committed dashboard, so the gate went red (the actual docs DEPLOY is master-push-only and was skipped; only the PR verify job ran). Refreshed from the exact inventory the CI run generated (ubuntu, LF-normalised) so the diff is byte-clean and will also pass on the master-merge deploy. Data-only — this commit adds/removes no code and no test methods.
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NumSharp 0.70.0
It took a while but we are at 85% NumPy API coverage and 15,000 unit tests with 116k oracle byte-to-byte tests.
This is a huge milestone for the .NET ecosystem as NumSharp matures.
This release also delivers integration with NumPy's OpenBLAS backend (NumSharp.Interop.OpenBLAS) and full integration with Python (pythonnet) giving a new angle of use cases for NumSharp to a point NumSharp is an unmanaged memory and math interop with the python ecosystem fully with no need to copy memory. I believe in integration rather than competition thus the large scale of support from PyTorch to Pandas.
OpenBLAS is a rapidly developed ecosystem and NumSharp will eventually replace with a simpler version but that requires porting of 100k-300k lines of code to achieve complete mathematical parity. OpenBLAS roughly powers 30% of NumPy's backend.
🧭 TL;DR
np.*- +88 functionsnp.fft.*- fully ported +18 functionsnp.linalg.*- fully ported +31 functionsndarray.*- +16 functionsnp.random.*- fully ported: the moderndefault_rng/ PCG64Generator, byte-identical streams.np.linalgsurface, byte-identical to NumPy 2.4.2 (bundles NumPy's own pinned OpenBLAS for 8 RIDs).[NDScoped]IL weaver for deterministic memory reclamation; its Roslyn leak/ownership analyzer ships inside NumSharp.NDScopeand[NDScoped]for automated memory disposal and buffer caching reclamation.NDArrayobject base size reduction1088 B -> 192 B(896 B smaller).Detailed Breakdown
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📦 New NuGet Packages
Three optional companion packages ship for the first time, co-versioned with NumSharp 0.70.0 (the two interop packages depend on NumSharp.Core; NumSharp.Build is a build-time development dependency that never enters your dependency graph).
All packages are now published as signed NuGet packages.
libgfortran/libquadmath/libgcc_s) is co-staged, and on macOS materialized at load (in place, or in a per-user cache for read-only / single-file layouts) so a plain PackageReference restore loads on every platform.dot,matmul,inner,vdot,vecdot,matvec,vecmat,tensordot,multi_dot,matrix_power.solve,inv,det,slogdet,tensorsolve,tensorinv.cholesky,qr,svd,svdvals.eig,eigvals,eigh,eigvalsh.lstsq,pinv,matrix_rank,cond,norm.correlate,convolve.arr.ToNumpy()/arr.ToPython()out;pyObj.AsNDArray()/pyObj.FromArrayLike()in.RegisterCodec()once, then pythonnet's ownobj.ToPython()/pyObj.As<NDArray>()round-trip transparently.ValueTuple/Tuplecross as Python tuples (any arity, nested; anNDArrayelement becomes a numpy view) and a Python tuple / namedtuple /torch.Sizedecodes back into a same-arity C# tuple, so(long, long) shape = py.a.shapejust works.Auto(view when possible, else copy),View(share or decline),Copy(always independent).FromArrayLikeimports any PEP 3118 exporter, strided/offset/reversed included; read-only stays non-writeable:[NDScoped]/[NDScopedAsync]deterministic memory reclamation: mark a method and theNDArraytemporaries it drops return to NumSharp's buffer pool the moment it exits, instead of waiting on the finalizer - the source keeps its 100% original body; the scope is woven post-compile into the intermediate assembly.📊 Dashboards & Docs
Three living dashboards ship on the documentation site, each generated from the same CI artifacts the release gates run on.
✨ New APIs & Modules
np.random.default_rng- the full modern PCG64Generator, byte-identical streams to NumPy 2.4.2 -e868d8ae(+754b7476,febfbbdd,f491c499).default_rng- entry point (seed /SeedSequence/BitGenerator/PCG64overloads).random,integers,standard_normal,normal,exponential,uniform,standard_gamma,gamma,choice,shuffle,permutation,permuted- the Generator draw surface.random_integers,bytes- the legacy RandomState helpers.np.fft.*- the whole 18-function Fourier module, a pure-managed pocketfft port, bit-exact incl. float32/float16 values -3b9d5cfb,a525e355,4cb91898.fft,ifft,fft2,ifft2,fftn,ifftn- complex forward/inverse (1-D/2-D/N-D).rfft,irfft,rfft2,irfft2,rfftn,irfftn- real-input transforms.hfft,ihfft- Hermitian-symmetric transforms.fftfreq,rfftfreq,fftshift,ifftshift- sample-frequency & shift helpers.np.einsum- Einstein summation, now computing and planning -7d2d7a2f(+d78e07db,b61b0998),bb63ba48(+5a55d065).einsum- contracts via the matrix products (rides OpenBLAS when the package is referenced).einsum_path- greedy/optimal contraction planner, byte-exact info string.np.r_/np.c_/np.ix_/np.s_/np.index_exp- the grid & slice-expression DSL, 131/131 bit-exact vs NumPy 2.4.2 -00dfe402(+3c63734d,7eea4f7f,c4e27523).np.ogrid/np.mgrid/np.meshgrid- open-mesh / dense-mesh / coordinate-matrix grid constructors, differential bit-exact vs NumPy 2.4.2 -19feaed2,7f558d05,4e8c3925.NDIterRefengine (37 cases probed side-by-side, all identical) -8bd882b3,7112cbe4.np.nditer,np.ndindex,np.ndenumerate- the boxed iterators, full flag/error parity.np.nested_iters,ndarray.flatiter- nested-loop iterators + a write-through flat iterator.b3505398(+8cad3025).partition,argpartition- kth-element partial sort (value + index).lexsort- indirect stable multi-key sort;sort_complex- real-then-imag complex sort.nanargmax,nanargmin- NaN-aware argmax/argmin.np.take_along_axis- the per-slice gather (theargsort/argmaxinverse), NumPy 2.4.2 parity, 24,000+ fuzz cases bit-exact, ≥1.5× faster on every measured variation -f351600a(+88550d13,7091a3c9).np.select- pick each element from the first choice whose condition is true, NumPy 2.4.2 parity (fused single-pass kernel on the contiguous path) -fc10404d(+42d96a14).np.isin+intersect1d/union1d/setxor1d/setdiff1d- element-wise membership + sorted set algebra, NumPy 2.4.2 parity (1.9-13.5× faster) -bfe952d5(+27632ed5).unique_values,unique_counts,unique_inverse,unique_all, 102/102 bit-exact vs NumPy 2.4.2 across 13 dtypes -bec1c497.np.diagfamily + triangular ops - 13 functions, 165/165 side-by-side parity with NumPy 2.4.2 -27b9b012(+a7782984).diag,diagflat,fill_diagonal- diagonal build & in-place fill.tri,tril,triu- triangular masks & extraction.diag_indices,diag_indices_from,tril_indices,tril_indices_from,triu_indices,triu_indices_from,mask_indices- index generators.np.*products; byte-parity via the OpenBLAS backend when referenced -53d7764f(+81509766,297f883f,74aa5d5a).inner,vdot,vecdot,matvec,vecmat,tensordot,multi_dot,matrix_power.956f3392(+2628c921,d6a50593).poly,roots,polyfit,polyval- construction / fitting / evaluation.polyadd,polysub,polymul,polydiv,polyder,polyint- arithmetic & calculus.poly1d- the polynomial object;vander- Vandermonde matrix.savetxt→loadtxtround-trips -a1920a4a,17a1ff8a(+80a0ed50,d39ff824).np.savetxt,np.loadtxt,np.fromstring.9fa48041(+615f1ee5).arcsinh,arccosh,arctanh- primary ufuncs;asinh,acosh,atanh- Array-API aliases.deviceconformance (CPU shim) -ebba2cbf.ndarray.device,ndarray.to_device, anddevice=onarray/zeros/ones/empty/arange/ ….np.kron,np.cross- Kronecker & cross products -7bcad845,73019dce.np.cov,np.corrcoef- covariance & Pearson correlation -92dc537b,aaf731b2.np.choose- index-into-choices gather -aaa41ef2.np.nancumsum,np.nancumprod- NaN-aware cumulative scans -0370c0aa.np.digitize,np.bincount- bin-index + integer histogram, bit-exact vs NumPy 2.4.2 -f2cefba2,12f484c3.np.correlate- sliding cross-correlation (managed SIMD; OpenBLAS byte-parity below) -12f484c3.np.bmat- block-matrix assembly -6ba24752(+d5621d57).np.real,np.imag,np.angle,np.conjugate/np.conj- complex component / phase accessors (post-FFT spectrum extractors) -8b0ac701,d0081b6d.np.iterable- NumPy's pure iterability predicate -ce560796(+8cf54d35).np.isfortran- F-contiguity predicate (a.flags.fnc) -30453696.np.logaddexp,np.logaddexp2,np.nextafter,np.copysign- IEEE binary ufuncs (fullout=/where=/dtype=surface);nextafter/copysignbit-exact,logaddexp≤2 ULP vs NumPy 2.4.2 -043370e0,26d014ed.np.interp- 1-D linear interpolation (incl.period+ complexfp), bit-exact vs NumPy 2.4.2 -043370e0.np.nan_to_num,np.isposinf,np.isneginf- NaN/±inf replacement + signed-infinity predicates, byte-identical to NumPy 2.4.2 -480c2786.np.getbufsize,np.setbufsize- thread-local ufunc buffer size with NumPy's verbatim validation, byte-exact -6d471cf3.np.linalgfactorisation surface and complex128dot/matmulare listed under New NuGet Packages above (they compute via the OpenBLAS backend) -dc448acc,f5ec6276,d09e4376,6ee562da.NDScope- deterministic buffer reclamation:using (var s = NDScope.Open())returns theNDArraytemporaries built inside the scope to the pool at exit (vias.Returns(result)) instead of waiting on the finalizer; Core weaves ~265np.*methods with[NDScoped]so their transients are reclaimed eagerly, and the NumSharp.Build weaver applies the same to your own methods -1b4e776b(+99583e25,726ec48b).DType/np.dtype- a unified dtype descriptor (NumPy'snumpy.dtypeanalog) that folds the three historical spellings -System.Type,NPTypeCode, and a NumPy dtype string ("float32"/"f4"/"<f8", case-sensitive) - behind implicit conversions, plus 15 static spellings (DType.Int32,DType.Single, …); the ufunc, reduction and logic overloads migrated to it first (Creation/IO to follow) -25a35f45(+c4ebbfb4,8b13234e).TensorEngine.Threading- one process-wide registry for every threading knob NumSharp and the native BLAS/OpenMP ecosystem expose (NUMSHARP_NUM_THREADS,OPENBLAS_NUM_THREADS,OMP/MKL/BLIS/NumExpr/vecLib):Register/Get/SetThreads/SetAll; a variable already set in the environment is the source of truth a module default never overrides, every write stays process-scoped, andnp.multithreadingnow routes through it (the OpenBLAS package plugs in a live reader/applier) -659ed82a.🧩 ndarray surface
ndarraymember parity with NumPy 2.4.2 -data- the memoryview buffer object (np.MemoryView); accepted zero-copy byarray/asarray/frombuffer/ … -25ae7053(+4072577d,bc544403).byteswap- width-dispatched endian byte-swap -67994cbc.getfield,setfield- byte-field views -4b07b71d.real,imag,conj,conjugate- complex accessors -7765ce50.itemsize,nbytes,fill,flags- metadata members -792a9f14(+aee7cbab,27a19ae4);setflags- write/align control -275f089c.all,any,clip,take,repeat,squeeze,trace, …) -06869352.⚡ Performance
Ratios are NumPy ÷ NumSharp - higher is better (
x2= twice NumPy's speed);xLOW->xHIGHspans the worst→best measured cell across sizes and dtypes.x0.98->x74-np.uniquefamily routed through the radix sort core -5df10897(+35d12699).x1.6->x5.2-percentile/median/quantilepivot-stack block-partition quickselect -8a1376ff.x0.4->x2.75-np.argpartitionon the same block/pivot-stack path -75a1d873.x1.35->x11-np.isinhash-set membership replaces sort+searchsorted -bd96d541.x15.6- blocked GEBP double GEMM for transposed-Bdot(2.9→43 GFLOP/s) -97e9e82a(+7d680eb1).x40->x249- typednp.nditer<T>/nditer_chunks<T>, allocation-free iteration (chunks +Vector<T>hits 249×) -d58f3728.x1.0->x4.5-take/put/placeelement-copy specialization + gather prefetch (takewent from x0.68 losing to winning everywhere) -88550d13.x1.04->x11.7- float32exp/log/sin/cos/tanh+rad2deg/deg2radreimplemented as bit-exact NumPy kernel ports (tanhalso replaces the float64 loop) -ecdb4581,6bab5754,f5f21ff3.x1.8->x60- the whole float16 family on bit-level AVX2 / widen-compute-narrow kernels:min/max/ptp,maximum/minimum/fmax/fmin, the six comparisons,nanmin/nanmax,clip,add/subtract/multiply/divide,floor/ceil/trunc/rint-a05b5b1e,f3405659,3a46cfec,c9e141c5,498a68f0,c8b0573d,c8babf28.x2.0->x3.4- the bool dtype family on byte-lane SIMD (bitwise/logical/comparisons; was x0.38-0.62);sum(bool)is a popcount (x23.6) andargmax(bool)a find-first scan (up to ~60,000x on sparse input) -46dbb9c6,d967d99b(+bd655743).x0.9->x1.9- SIMDisnan/isinf/isfinitefor float32/float64 (was ~x0.10; 1K stays at the small-N alloc floor) -7bd4f380(+4dfe7619).x1.0->x1.65- float32/float64argmax/argminsingle-pass SIMD tournament (was ~x0.15) -48f894ea.x1.82->x3.12- float32exp2SIMD kernel (hybrid double-2^r+ float scale; was ~x0.19) -87a8bb8f.x1.4->x6.5- NDIter 2-D block kernel for narrow strided rows + NumPy-style axis coalescing (narrow rows were x0.4-0.82; a contiguous(250000,4)array times a scalar dropped 1.7 ms->251 µs) -af25a746,ccadeef4.x1.1->x10.5- fancy indexing (a[idx],a[idx]=v,m[ridx]) routed to the take/put kernels andwhere=masked ops scanned with SIMD (a[idx64]was x0.22,a[idx32]x0.81; masked all-false 27.7->1.5 µs) -09d1fc59.x1.06->x9.3- NDIter fixed-cost cut (recycled state block, packed kernel key, direct external-loop advance, SIMD comparisonout=, eager overlap-temp dispose): construction geomean x2.73->x5.8, everyout=ufunc now beats NumPy at n=1 -15154b00.x2.88->x3.00-cov/corrcoefvia a managed symmetric-Gram (syrk) path at ≤16 variables (100K; was ~x0.56) -d64f3df5.x0.7->x1.85- managedmatvec/vecmat/ matrix-vectordotgemv/gevm paths, no backend (was ~x0.1-0.2) -4f666fc8.x6-diff/ediff1dfused adjacent-difference stencil (1K; ~4x fewer allocations at 100K) -6e94dbcc.x1.46->x4.8-fill_diagonal/diag/diagflatdiagonal-write IL kernel (fill_diagonal10M was x0.40) -a13238ac.x1.4->x1.7- streamed int64/uint64meanaxis reductions + unrolled flatnanmin/nanmax(were x0.16 / x0.26) -8c09dc15.x2.0->x2.3- pre-statecpblkfast path for trivial same-layoutcopyto/copy/cloneat small N -7bfc27a2.x1.8->x2.3- small same-dtype single-broadcast ops routed to the direct SimdChunk kernel (1K; was ~x0.55) -a3819869.x0.6->x1.35- buffer-pool GC pacing + burst-sized buckets lift the small-N elementwise floor for undisposed results (1K float32abswas x0.29) -160ecbba.1088 B -> 192 Bper-NDArrayobject base size (896 B smaller) -UnmanagedStorage's 15 per-dtype slice fields collapsed into oneStructLayout.Explicitunion -8306fa63.🎯 Parity & Fixes
3893b41a:np.frombuffer(bytes, "float64")- NumPy dtype names ("float64","int32","bool","complex128","float16") now parse like the sized codes ("<f8"); they threwNotSupportedException.np.clip(float32, 1, 3)/ndarray.clipand the arctan2-template ufuncs (arctan2,copysign,logaddexp,logaddexp2,nextafter) keep the array's float dtype for a weak C# int literal (NEP50), instead of promoting float32/float16 to float64.np.dtype("f4").name/ToString()render NumPy's name (float32), not the CLR type name (Single).np.cov/np.corrcoeftake the BLAS product whenever the OpenBLAS backend is installed (the managed ≤16-variable Gram fast path is now no-backend only), so they are byte-identical to NumPy with the package as documented.NumSharp.Interop.OpenBLASdiscovery probes the runtime's native search directories, so a single-file publish withIncludeNativeLibrariesForSelfExtract=truestill finds the bundled binary (the backend silently vanished there).poly1d.Call(x)- the evaluation member NumPy spellsp(x).build/NumSharp.targetsand the OpenBLASbuildTransitive/*files ship under anet8.0/TFM folder, so anetstandard2.0/net6.0/net7.0consumer gets NuGet'sNU1202at restore instead of a "compatible" restore with nolib/and a bareCS0246at compile.ndarray.flags/setflags- full NumPy 2.4.2 parity across the whole layout/producer space, hardened by a 1104-case differential oracle (owndata/writeable/contiguity, squeeze-as-view, split-child contiguity, read-only reduction scalars) -275f089c,53b5d82e,ca1b0fac.searchsorted- complex lexicographic order +result_typekey promotion (no more silent key down-cast) + NaN-as-largest total order -93abe13d,cc676ea8,f2cefba2.np.take/np.putindex validation matches NumPy - a negative index undermode='raise'normalizes once (np.take(a, [-1])addresses the last element instead of throwing), and a non-castable float/complex index raises the verbatimTypeErrorinstead of silently truncating -fc10404d,88550d13.np.correlate/np.convolve- OpenBLAS byte-parity via the new sliding-dot seam -d0be3132.broadcast_tois read-only,broadcast_arraysis writeable, and writing a non-writeable view now raises NumPy's verbatim message instead of silently corrupting the shared source -1eadb83b,6fb518c0,1cc67d47(+baf41c89).size×itemsizeoverflow,reshape(-1, …), andexpand_dimsaxis now raise NumPy's verbatim texts instead of silent wrong-size allocations or raw .NET exceptions -c2552d6a.ones(3000)@ones(3000)=2048 saturation), stacked/fancy indexing into zero-sized arrays, and the 0-d boolean setter -03d0f0c8,7636100a,f6e258c0.SetIndicesNDNonLinear), bit-exact vs NumPy 2.4.2 across all 15 dtypes -ff68bf14.astype(copy: false)never mutates the caller's array on a dtype conversion, matching NumPy -e5274cdc.ndarray.view(dtype)of a different-itemsize dtype now follows NumPy 2.x's last-axis-contiguous rule, soarr[::2].view(int32)works instead of throwing -970ee7f1.np.matmulgains the full ufunc keyword surface (out=/axes=/axis=/keepdims=/dtype=/casting=/order=), andnp.dot/np.outergainout=-73019dce(+87ff5797).argmax/argminbugs the sort audit exposed - the Decimal and Char flat paths and a NaN-tie ordering - now match NumPy 2.4.2 -8cad3025.np.uniquefull-parameter parity with NumPy 2.4.2 - the axis path's slab equality is corrected so each NaN sub-array is distinct and signed-zero sub-arrays collapse (a real unique-row-count bug for floats/complex),sorted=/equal_nan=are accepted, an out-of-range axis raises the verbatimAxisError, the bare-return overloads (np.unique(ar, axis: 0)) andintersect1d(return_indices:)now port verbatim, andUniqueResultfields are case-identical to NumPy -9f573dd5,262eefd7,0151a832.np.linalgfactorisations without a backend now raise a typedOpenBlasMissingBackendException- derives fromNotSupportedExceptionso existing catches still work, and names theNumSharp.Interop.OpenBLASpackage to install (was a bareNotSupportedException) -d1347c36.b2a8374b:np.ascontiguousarray/np.asfortranarray- a 0-D input returns a length-1 view (shares storage), matching NumPy's ndim≥1 contract.np.eye/np.ones-Charfills numeric one U+0001, not the character'1'.np.full_like- preserves the source array's dtype;fill_value's CLR type no longer selects the result dtype.np.linspace- floors inexact values before an integer-dtype cast and pins the endpoint tostopexactly.np.einsum- a scalar (ndim==0) contraction keeps its()shape instead of promoting to(1,).np.angle(deg: true)- a 0-DHalf/Singleresult keeps its float tier instead of promoting toDouble.var/std/cumsum/cumprod/all/any) andndarray.fillnow run at unlimited ndim like the rest of NumSharp -8f34e8ff,7fa96750.np.linalgfactorisations -det,slogdet,solve,inv(+tensorinv/tensorsolve/matrix_power(n<0)) - now compute in a backend-free Core via a managed LU (allcloseto NumPy, faster for small matrices) instead of raising; an installed OpenBLAS backend still wins the seam for byte-parity -48b00e00(+03884ee9).np.isclose/np.allclosenow compute in NumPy's exactresult_type- fixes a complex128 correctness bug (the imaginary part was dropped, soisclose([1+0j],[1+100j])wrongly returnedTrue) and evaluates float32 pairs in float32 (100K x0.18->x3.3) -fbbda5f0.np.sum(float16)accumulates in a float32 shadow and narrows per orientation like NumPy'sHALF_add- an axis sum now saturates (sum(ones((4096,3),f16),axis=0)=[2048,2048,2048], was[4096,...], a ~3.5% error) while a flat sum still reaches 4096 -32732a0f.np.power(x, negative_int)- a strided/2-D/broadcast integer exponent no longer reads out of bounds (a Release memory-safety bug), and a bool base now raises NumPy's verbatimValueErrorinstead of silently computing -02e6929f.new NDArray(buffer, shape, 'F')lays out column-major,np.arange(dtype=bool)raises past length 2,np.frombufferrejects complex64/'c8', andnp.array's defaultndminis 0 -5c7e3ad8.np.isreal/np.iscomplexnow inspect the imaginary part (they returned all-True/ all-Falsefor complex regardless of value) and no longer emit garbage bytes on a strided real input -fa491573.sum/mean/prod/min/max/std/var+ allnan*) preserve an F-contiguous input's layout (KEEPORDER allocation) instead of flipping it to C, matching NumPy -0ae977d9(issue [Core] Layout 'F/A/K' support #610).np.clipon a non-contiguous Boolean array (strided/transposed/F-order/reversed) now clips instead of throwingNotSupportedException-f6f5b657.add/subtract/multiply/divide(andkron) no longer read the wrong elements - a stride-coalescer bug (merged adjacent axes by value, not magnitude) plus a bit-exact odometer kernel -7f2c09a3.maximum/minimum/nanmin/nanmax/clipnow return NaN operands verbatim (payload + sign preserved, was canonicalHalf.NaN), and aclipNaN-max-bound precedence bug that returned float32 fills (any dtype) is fixed -f3405659,498a68f0,c9e141c5.sqrt/log/exp/expm1/square/reciprocal/sin/cos/tan/sinh/cosh/tanh/thearc*family/abs/signemit NumPy's positive quiet NaN where it canonicalizes and propagate the operand's NaN sign where it does (was .NET's negative NaN);squareis additionally made arch-consistent via a portable FMA off x86 (fixing a thousands-of-ULP Apple-silicon divergence), all gated by a newnandifferential-fuzz tier -760bb5bb(+298e7c60,8e1f3cd9,2fd9d785,56a55712).sort,argsort,partition,argpartition(and the flatcumsum/cumprodoutput shapes) now handle arrays aboveint.MaxValueelements -np.sortsilently returned unsorted data andnp.partitionthrewOverflowExceptionon a 2.1-billion-element array (int-indexed radix/introselect over managed scratch), caught by a new >int.MaxValue byte oracle; the Half/Complex/Decimal comparison path documents a clearNotSupportedExceptionthere instead of truncating -ab15b165,85891751(+7ea70490).ValueError/IndexError/TypeError/IncorrectShapeException(broadcast, index bounds, dtype/format, latin-1 header) passes it through asInnerException, so the root cause and stack survive (message text unchanged) -fe42db9b.🧰 Testing & Tooling
out=/where=(3,727 cases over out × mask layouts), result-kinds + verbatim-error + iterator-trace, IEEE special-values (nan/±inf/±0/subnormal), and a truthful-vs-precise precision channel -bc91dd25,6cd1de9b,0882edbb,359e9d3c,76f0c918.np.randomsampler byte-parity divergences (f/pareto/standard_cauchy/binomial/negative_binomial/multinomial/multivariate_normal/gamma(shape<1)), now pinned as known[OpenBugs]issues (not yet fixed) -31a178f2.cf559a1a,03415ec9,5ff54a72.💥 Breaking Changes
np.random.bytes/Generator.bytesnow returnNDArray<byte>instead ofbyte[], so draws >2 GiB succeed (NumPynpy_intpparity) -44d2e7d9.ndarray.stridesnow reports bytes per axis (was elements), matching NumPy'sPyArray_STRIDES-6ef30215.np.unique(ar)now returns aUniqueResultstruct instead of a bareNDArray, sonp.unique(ar)[k]selects the k-th output (use.values[k]for the k-th value); it converts implicitly toNDArray/NDArray[]so most call-sites are unchanged -17f571ef.np.mgrid/np.meshgriddrop their legacy non-NumPy signatures:mgrid[...]is now an indexer (was a 2-arg method) andmeshgridis variadic returningMeshgridResult(was a fixed 2-tuple +Kwargs) -7f558d05,4e8c3925.PublicKeyTokenchanges fromnulltocc7b13ffcd2ddd51(published NumSharp had shipped unsigned since 2019); every consumer (TensorFlow.NET, Pandas.NET, Gym.NET) must recompile -478d550d.NUMSHARP_<AREA>_<SETTING>scheme with no back-compat aliases -NUMSHARP_GUARD_PAGES(shipped in 0.60.0) becomesNUMSHARP_DEBUG_GUARD_PAGES, and the OpenBLAS/pythonnet knobs take_LIBRARY/_SEARCH_PATH/_USE_BUNDLED/_PYPI_FEED_URL/_REQUIRE_ENGINEnames -079d1859.NDArray.Normalize()(a non-NumPy extension) is marked[Obsolete]in favour ofnp.clip()-b701843e.boolarray combined with a weak integer literal now promotes to int64 (was int32), matching NumPy's NEP50 -np.left_shift(boolArr, 2),boolArr + 2,boolArr & 2etc. change result dtype; a narrower strong spelling like(short)2keeps its own kind -46dbb9c6.np.poly1dis nowIDisposable- it owns the coefficient array its constructor yields into it, soDispose()releases it, and the copy-constructornew poly1d(p)now copies the coefficients instead of sharing one array between two owners (NumPy shares by refcount; two NumSharp owners would double-dispose). Found by the new NDW016 ownership analyzer, which also madenp.Broadcast.Dispose()(whatforeachcalls when a loop ends) release thebroadcast_toviews it had built (they are rebuilt lazily on the nextiters/enumeration, so the object stays re-enumerable) andIndexCollectoranIDisposablethat no longer strands its outgrown buffer -4cc9cac5.dtypeargument is now keyword-only on the ufunc/reduction/logic surface (the Math ufuncs, the reductions, and the comparison/isnan/isinf/isfinitepredicates) -np.sqrt(x, typeof(float))becomesnp.sqrt(x, dtype: ...)(NumPy-faithful);System.Type/NPTypeCode/ a dtype string all still bind via the newDTypeimplicit conversion, andpower/floor_dividedrop their object-scalar-rhs-plus-dtypeconvenience overload -c4ebbfb4,8b13234e.