On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 13:09 +0000, jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Thursday, 8 September 2016 at 10:18:36 UTC, Russel Winder > wrote: > > > > > > I am certainly hoping that Chapel will be the language to > > displace NumPy for serious computation in the Python-sphere. > > Given it's foundation in the PGAS model, it has all the > > parallelism needs, both cluster and local, built in. Given > > Chapel there is no need to look at C++, D, Rust, Cython, etc. > > I care about performance, but also about productivity. Chapel > still has some ways to go on the latter. Also, they are still in > the early stages of GPU support, I think.
For computational work I'd say Chapel was just as productive as any other language, probably better. This is though likely an issue on which there is only opinion and no facts. GPGPU support is not in Chapel as yet I believe, but then it isn't in Python either. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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