On Wed, 2012-10-03 at 18:57 +0200, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: […] > PS In a post here from yesterday I've read about people moving to > "smaller" Java systems and Python. Not C#. And how does Python do > benchmarks on millions of floats? Or perhaps what people appreciated is a > different thing? I'd be happy to know by the OP more details on this.
Clearly Python is not yet able to compete with C, C++ or Fortran at huge computations, but using PyPy, simple computations can be about 5x → 10x slower than C. But this matters not in the context of use which is fast evolution, few runs computations. The rationale for finance industry, bioinformatics, CERN, and the like to use Python is that it is more than fast enough for that which it is asked to be used for computationally, and significantly faster for the using community to evolve to that which is needed. This says nothing about Python versus any other language in any technical sense, it is just an observation on why Python is gaining traction again. -- 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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