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matlab costs boatloads of money for commercial stuff. At least from my perspective. I wish there were an open alternative to matlab that was fast. Matlab is
by maximilian 18y ago
matlab costs boatloads of money for commercial stuff. At least from my perspective.
I wish there were an open alternative to matlab that was fast. Matlab is kinda fast if you do exactly the right thing, but its interpretedness gets in the way. Most of the people I know doing computational stuff write everything in c using some outside libraries to speed things up. Often they just code up all their own algorithms from scratch. Its lame, but they usually halve the computation time. I could imagine that SciPy and NumPy is much much faster than Matlab.
Matlab is crazy easy to code for though. Its really handy for prototyping.
- llimllib 18y ago> I could imagine that SciPy and NumPy is much much faster than Matlab. SciPy and NumPy tend to be just about as fast as Matlab, when used in their default manner. When you drop into inline Blitz/C for your inner loops using Scipy though, you can achieve orders of magnitude improvements. Check it out: http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython