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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 opti
by pg314 10y ago
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.
- dreamcompiler 10y agoExactly. Without numpy, Python is orders of magnitude slower at numeric computation than Common Lisp. With numpy, it's faster because numpy is basically C.