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Re:A Billion Rows per Second: Metaprogramming Python for Big... by iskander on Friday September 27, 2013 @07:46PM (#6460249)
Why did you guys choose to compile through Numba rather than directly to LLVM or C?
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Re:A Billion Rows per Second: Metaprogramming Python for Big... by vtuulos on Saturday September 28, 2013 @08:18AM (#6461631)
Numba was just the fastest way to get it working. LLVM(py) is very low-level. C is still an option but Numba made interfacing with a no-brainer.
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