Re:Show HN: A Fortran web framework
by marmaduke on Monday June 20, 2016 @03:04PM
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All of this is wrong. Numpy does not depend on fortran code and TF and theano implement their arithmetic without fortran code.
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Re:Show HN: A Fortran web framework
by shepardrtc on Monday June 20, 2016 @03:39PM
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From http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/user/building.html
> Various NumPy modules use FORTRAN 77 libraries
$ pip show tensorflow theano
Name: tensorflow
Version: 0.7.1
...
Requires: six, protobuf, wheel, numpy
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Name: Theano
Version: 0.8.2
...
Requires: six, scipy, numpy
You are right that arithmetic in both of them is not written on Fortran, but the packages do use NumPy as you can see in the pip output.