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Eagerly awaiting matrix libraries written in pure Python that outperform BLAS.
by StefanKarpinski 5y ago
Eagerly awaiting matrix libraries written in pure Python that outperform BLAS.
- sivakon 5y agoWaiting for Octavian to replace https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/stdlib/LinearAlgebra/src/blas.jl https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/stdlib/Linear...
- freemint 5y agoThe fact that there is a competitive candidate replacement native in Julia (Although a few man years in engineering time wouldn't hurt) is telling.
- tpoacher 5y ago"written in pure python" is just moving the goalposts. There's no need for them to be "written in pure python". They just need to be seemlessly usable from within it.
- StefanKarpinski 5y agoYour argument is that “Python can call fast code written in other languages”? That is true, of course, but if that’s your definition of Python being fast, then it makes the notion of one language being faster than another meaningless.