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>It also doesn't help that such capability have to be implemented as C extensions due to performance requirements. If you think the NumPy and SciPy stacks are
by razzmataz 15y ago
>It also doesn't help that such capability have to be implemented as C extensions due to performance requirements.
If you think the NumPy and SciPy stacks are pure python, you'll probably be surprised to find a lot of C and fortran sitting under the hood.
- mbell 15y agoI know they are not written in Python, that comment wasn't meant to be a knock on Ruby's performance in any way. Its simply the case that writing a highly performant vectorized computation library in a language that doesn't allow direct memory manipulation is a non-starter.