On Friday, May 1, 2015 at 2:04:44 PM UTC-4, Steven Sagaert wrote: > > like I said: I like Julia and I am rooting for it but just to play devil's > advocate: I believe it's also a goal (& possibility) of numba to write > c-level efficient code in Python. All you have to do add an annotation here > and there. >
Numba is arguably a 2nd lower-level language that happens to be embedded in Python — it is telling that Numba's documentation explicitly states that it can only get good performance when it is able to JIT the inner loops in "nopython mode" — basically, code that doesn't stray outside a small set of types.
