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Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by quadruplebond on Sunday October 15, 2017 @12:03PM (#15477695)
Blas is an interface, All performant blas libraries need to written to specifically take advantage of modern hardware. Things like NetLib exists as reference implementations, they are not high performance.

The point I am trying to make is that Numpy is unlikely to still be using the exact same code that was written in the 1970's unless its performance isn't critical. It is making the same function calls but the actual code will look pretty different.

Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by pletnes on Sunday October 15, 2017 @01:20PM (#15478040)
Numpy can use optimised BLAS but I believe it ships with an f2c transpiled reference BLAS so it can run (although slower) without Fortran where necessary.
Re:Why physicists still use Fortran (2015) by quadruplebond on Sunday October 15, 2017 @06:47PM (#15479775)
Sure but that will likely be much much slower.