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Re:Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Co... by lmm on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:23AM (#10661873)
Sometimes it's not - sometimes LAPACK is written in C. Sometimes your C is just a wrapper around FORTRAN and people should take this fact seriously: modern FORTRAN is often a better option than C for numerical workloads.
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Re:Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Co... by wesm on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:29AM (#10661893)
I never stated what language LAPACK was written in.
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Re:Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Co... by lmm on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:32AM (#10661905)
Then what was "C is just a wrapper for assembly, then, right?" supposed to mean?
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Re:Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Co... by wesm on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @07:32PM (#10666947)
Drawing a parallel!
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Re:Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Co... by lmm on Monday December 07, 2015 @07:43AM (#10689065)
What's the parallel? Python wrapping a C library is very different from C compiling down to assembly (which is often not even how C is compiled).
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