为什么一个 numpy 数组有 96 个字节的开销？

Question

如果我采用一个简单而空的 numpy 数组，我可以看到它有 96 个字节的开销，

>>> sys.getsizeof( np.array([]) )
96

96 字节存储的是什么？ numpy 或 Python 3 (cpython) 的 C 源代码在哪里设置？

Answer 1

数组存在于 numpy/core/include/numpy/ndarraytypes.h 中的 C 源代码中

见：https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/core/include/numpy/ndarraytypes.h

看起来它有几个指针、维度数和 PyObject_HEAD，它们的总和可能都计入你看到的字节数。

/*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
 * The main array object structure.                                                                                                                                                                                                           
 */
/* This struct will be moved to a private header in a future release */
typedef struct tagPyArrayObject_fields {
    PyObject_HEAD
    /* Pointer to the raw data buffer */
    char *data;
    /* The number of dimensions, also called 'ndim' */
    int nd;
    /* The size in each dimension, also called 'shape' */
    npy_intp *dimensions;
    /*                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
     * Number of bytes to jump to get to the                                                                                                                                                                                                  
     * next element in each dimension                                                                                                                                                                                                         
     */
    npy_intp *strides;

    PyObject *base;
    /* Pointer to type structure */
    PyArray_Descr *descr;
    /* Flags describing array -- see below */
    int flags;
    /* For weak references */
    PyObject *weakreflist;
} PyArrayObject_fields;