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Someone I met recently said this (in rough words): "When I'm writing rough code in lua, it's completely acceptable to do a couple of for loops here and there wi
by smhx 12y ago
Someone I met recently said this (in rough words): "When I'm writing rough code in lua, it's completely acceptable to do a couple of for loops here and there without a disaster in speed. With python, this was a complete meltdown"
I'm not saying it all boils down to just this quote, but I thought it was interesting and wanted to replay it here.
- ravich2_7183 12y agoThis is true, but there are a couple of easy workarounds for it: Cython and scipy.weave http://wiki.scipy.org/PerformancePython http://wiki.scipy.org/PerformancePython
- pwang 12y agoWe're making progress on that front with Numba: http://numba.pydata.org http://numba.pydata.org