We were interested in using a library that was originally written in MATLAB and had also been ported to Python. First thought was obviously to use the Python on

We were interested in using a library that was originally written in MATLAB and had also been ported to Python. First thought was obviously to use the Python one, but it was unbelievably, unusably slow. I fired up Octave (have never used it before) and got the MATLAB equivalent working, and it was blazing fast. I'm not a MATLAB programmer and will not learn it; I just need to call this one library.