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Re:The Idea of Lisp by goatlover on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:51PM (#13195679)
But what makes Python any better at numerical algorithms than Common Lisp? It's not like CL is lacking in numeric support. It probably has superior numeric support than Python, actually.
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Re:The Idea of Lisp by pg314 on Friday December 16, 2016 @01:57PM (#13195725)
Some/most Common Lisp implementation have better native support for numeric types than Python, but Python has a wealth of libraries like numpy that bind to optimised C/Fortran/assembly.
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Re:The Idea of Lisp by dreamcompiler on Friday December 16, 2016 @04:17PM (#13196931)
Exactly. Without numpy, Python is orders of magnitude slower at numeric computation than Common Lisp. With numpy, it's faster because numpy is basically C.
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Re:The Idea of Lisp by coliveira on Friday December 16, 2016 @06:22PM (#13197819)
Numerical libraries in Python are not implemented in the language itself. In typical Python fashion, they're just calling C and FORTRAN libraries.
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