Make _to_dense public?

[eroell]

What kind of feature would you like to request?

Other?

Please describe your wishes

The new fast _to_dense would be useful to have also outside of scanpy.

Do you think its possible to have this as a public function?

Tagging @Zethson here, too, who has talked to you about this previously I think, but couldnt find an open issue or thread here.

[flying-sheep]

As a response to this thread about numba, @Intron7 had the idea to investigate and benchmark a little standalone “fast array utilities” library based on Rust (containing e.g. _mean_var).

If it turns out that the idea has legs, that library might become exactly what you’re asking for!