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**Objectives**

Building an enhanced numerical package on top of the SIMD extensions of PyPy.

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**Description of work**

- Decide which numerical extension package to re-implement in PyPy.

- Re-implement the numeric package in terms of applying the
  new vectorized operations.
  
- Make sure that the new implementation passes all tests.

- Provide backward-compatibility of the package in a way that
  allows it to fall back to a simpler architecture when there
  is no SIMD extension available.

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**Deliverables**

- Enhanced numerical package

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**Milestones and Expected Result**

- M8

- We expect to at least reach the efficiency of the existing numerical
  packages. The target is to outperform these and to get a peformance that
  is comparable to the efficiency of optimised parallel C libraries.

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