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I imagine part of it is also that a lot of the code isn't the science part. It's all the setup, things like parsing data for input or output. Languages like P
by tyingq 3y ago
I imagine part of it is also that a lot of the code isn't the science part. It's all the setup, things like parsing data for input or output. Languages like Python and Perl have very rich standard library stuff for massaging strings, data formats, etc.
- PaulHoule 3y agoIf your data is big you may be amazed at how expensive string parsing can be. You can do a lot of FLOPS in the time it takes to serialize and deserialize a large matrix to ASCII for instance.
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