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juliantaylor committed Feb 24, 2017
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Highlights
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* Operations like `a + b + c` will create less temporaries on some platforms


Dropped Support
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New Features
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Temporary elision
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On platforms providing the `backtrace` function NumPy will now not create
temporaries in expression when possible.
For example `d = a + b + c` is transformed to `d = a + b; d += c` which can
improve performance for large arrays as less memory bandwidth is required to
perform the operation.

``axes`` argument for ``unique``
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In an N-dimensional array, the user can now choose the axis along which to look
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