On Mon, 2015-11-09 at 19:31 +0000, Márcio Martins via Digitalmars-d wrote: > I have been running some MCMC simulations in Python and it's hard > to cope with how unbelievably slow it is. > Takes me almost a minute to run a few hundred thousand samples on > my laptop whereas I can run the same simulation with a million > samples in under 100ms, on my phone with JavaScript on a browser.
Are you using NumPy with Python, or pure Python? In either case you will be better served by profiling you code to find out whoch is actually the performance bottleneck and then doing one of: 1. Use Numba to JIT the Python and achieve native code speed. 2. Replace the Python code with D code using either CFFI or PyD. 3. Replace the Python code with Chapel code using either CFFI or PyChapel. You could also use C++ or Rust via CFFI, but I have little experience using Rust with Python and am trying to avoid C++. > Then, you spend a minute waiting for the simulation to finish, to > find out you had an error in your report code that would have > been easily caught with static typing. So annoying... > > Is anyone doing similar stuff with D? Unfortunately, I couldn't > find any plotting libraries nor MATLAB-like numerical/stats libs > in dub. No need if you leave the coordination code in Python and then use Matplotlib, etc. Just put the computational expensive code into Chapel or D, leave the rest of your code in Python. > This seems like another area where D could easily pick up > momentum with RDMD and perhaps an integration with Jupyter which > is becoming very very popular. Jupyter (née IPython) is only popular in one workflow, creting papers for people to read and play with the executable code fragments. This is a big area but only one of many. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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