v0.1.0
First packaged release checkpoint for charex.
Highlights:
- Targets Numba 0.65.1 with llvmlite 0.47.x.
- Supports Python >=3.10,<3.15.
- Supports NumPy >=1.22,<1.27 and >=2.0,<2.5.
- Registers Numba overloads for NumPy fixed-width string APIs: np.char and NumPy 2.x np.strings.
- Covers comparison, occurrence, length, and string predicate operations for scalar and one-dimensional C-contiguous fixed-width S/U inputs.
- Includes refreshed tests, benchmark harnesses, and Numba 0.65.1 benchmark artifacts.
Not included in this release:
- NumPy StringDType support.
- N-dimensional array support and full NumPy broadcasting.
- Transformation-method coverage for the full NumPy string catalog.