On Thursday, 9 June 2016 at 15:44:04 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
Otherwise people would benchmark numpy instead of Python etc.
While it's not a one-to-one analogy due to the fact that Appender
is in Phobos, I think it would be totally reasonable to benchmark
numpy instead of Python.
What's the first answer on any SO question about slow python
code? Usually it's "use numpy". Most of the time, changing to
numpy takes five minutes and can have a huge impact on your code
speed with no decrease in readability. This is VERY indicative of
normal Python use, and therefore it's useful to know that Python
code can get to a certain speed with idiomatic use, which is what
programmers should actually care about.
"How fast can my code get" rather than "How fast can my code get
using this specific subset of the language and libraries".
