> is just plain dog shit slow for certain things compared to SciPy Do you have real examples here or is this just FUD? SciPy is not known for using absolute st

> is just plain dog shit slow for certain things compared to SciPy Do you have real examples here or is this just FUD? SciPy is not known for using absolute state of the art algorithms or perfectly optimized implementations. It can be pretty easy to improve on the naively implemented or legacy pieces of SciPy, e.g. http://tullo.ch/articles/python-vs-julia/ http://tullo.ch/articles/python-vs-julia/