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Re:Python JITs are coming by dalke on Tuesday August 23, 2016 @03:44PM (#12346857)
As an aside, these sorts of comments about the needs of a "scientific programmer" always irk me.

I've been doing scientific software development now for 20 years. I do non-numerical scientific computing, originally structural biology, then bioinformatics, and now chemical informatics, the last dominated by graph theory.

I rarely use NumPy and effectively never the languages you mentioned. Last year on one project I did use a hypergeometric survival function from SciPy, then re-implemented it in Python so I wouldn't have the large dependency for what was a few tens of lines of code.

Biopython, as another example, has almost no dependencies on NumPy, and works under PyPy.

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Re:Python JITs are coming by forgotpwtomain on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @12:07AM (#12349611)
It would be awesome if you have a blog post or another resource that contains some of your work experience that you can link? I'd be very interested.
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Re:Python JITs are coming by dalke on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @05:48AM (#12350801)
The best I can offer are my previous HN comments on the topic, at https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dalke%20numpy&sort=byPopularit... and http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2011/1... .

I don't see what's awesome or all that interesting about it.

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