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Learning Numba will likely be a better pay off.
by marmaduke 8y ago
Learning Numba will likely be a better pay off.
- twic 8y agoMaybe. But basic Fortran is pretty easy to learn - it's a somewhat warty but very simple language. It might well be the case that spending three days learning it lets you spend two days writing some straightforward but really fast code.
- Something1234 8y agoIt's very warty. The errors about formatting is unhelpful at best, if you're trying to do something it doesn't like, like having numbers together and separated by underscores.
- marmaduke 8y agoFor those already working in Python, Numba is a 2 hour investment, that pays off with similar speed as Fortran code except no new syntax, semantics, compiler or FFI to bother with.
- enriquto 8y agodo you think numbaized code written today using most of the features will run correctly on a standard environment in 20 years?