>Yes as long as you profile and make sure that the bottleneck is a blas / atlas call I agree. Where Python really shines, I think, is where you have these sort

>Yes as long as you profile and make sure that the bottleneck is a blas / atlas call I agree. Where Python really shines, I think, is where you have these sorts of bottlenecks + something extra that MATLAB performs terribly at, either as a consequence of language/VM design or lack of libraries.