#from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2196693/improving-numpy-performance
#pythran export specialconvolve(uint32 [][])
#setup: import numpy as np ; r = np.arange(100*10000, dtype=np.uint32).reshape(1000,1000)
#run: specialconvolve(r)

def specialconvolve(a):
    # sorry, you must pad the input yourself
    rowconvol = a[1:-1,:] + a[:-2,:] + a[2:,:]
    colconvol = rowconvol[:,1:-1] + rowconvol[:,:-2] + rowconvol[:,2:] - 9*a[1:-1,1:-1]
    return colconvol