Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Computing

Re:Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Co... by pjc50 on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @04:36AM (#10661916)

Absolutely. For this kind of one-shot scientific computing, the only way the C programmer can win is if the Python programmer is sitting on their hands for weeks waiting for their program to run.

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Re:Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Co... by JupiterMoon on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @07:59AM (#10662638)

Unless (1) the relevant library happens to be written in C and there are no python bindings and the problem is simple OR (2) there is an existing solution which is 95% complete in C and one needs to write from scratch in python. I've never come across situation (1) with a new project. Situation (2) is quite common.

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Re:Why I Still Use Python for High Performance Scientific Co... by ovis on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @11:09AM (#10663761)

But in those cases, the Python programmer could just wrap the C library in Python, which I suspect is often a lot easier than starting from scratch.

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