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Re:JNumPy: Writing high-performance C extensions for Python ... by cardanome on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @03:47AM (#32408918)
Wait, you are using PHP for scientific computing? I would love to hear more about that part.

That could actually work out nicely with the right libraries, just haven't yet heard of anyone doing that.

I think Python is inherently difficult to optimize because it allows some dynamic trickery that PHP does not. Additionally being large and complex does not help. You can't really pull an LuaJit equivalent. There sure are still many quick wins to be made for Python performance but not sure if it will ever compete with PHP/Lua/Julia and others on the performance front.

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Re:JNumPy: Writing high-performance C extensions for Python ... by pbowyer on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @05:21AM (#32409502)
> Wait, you are using PHP for scientific computing? I would love to hear more about that part.

Not OP but I wish PHP was usable for scientific computing.

If I had better C/Rust/PHP internals insane macro skills I would integrate a dataframe library (Pola.rs?) into PHP to give us the basics for manipulating data.

Plenty more to add after that for matrix multiplication and the rest but I haven't thought that far ahead!

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