I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate of
SciPy 0.8.0. Please try it out and report any problems on the scipy-dev
mailing list.
SciPy is a package of tools for science and engineering for Python.
It includes modules for statistics, optimization, integration, linear
Pauli Virtanen iki.fi> writes:
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> It's possible that in the cases where Lua wins, the Lua code is not
> completely equivalent to the Fortran code, or uses stuff such as strings
> for which Lua's default implementation may be efficient.
Note - not "Lua's default implementation" but LuaJIT
Sturla Molden skrev:
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php
>
> They are benchmarking with tasks that burns the CPU, like computing and
> bitmapping Mandelbrot sets and processing DNA data.
>
>
It is also the kind of tasks where NumPy would help. It
Sebastian Haase skrev:
> Hi Sturla,
> what is this even about ... ? Do you have some references ? It does
> indeed sound interesting ... but what kind of code / problem are they
> actually testing here ?
>
>
http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programming-languages-are-fastest.php
They
Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:32:14 +0200, Sturla Molden wrote:
> I was just looking at Debian's benchmark. LuaJIT is now (on median)
> beating Intel Fortran! Consider that Lua is a dynamic language very
> similar to Python. I know it's "just a benchmark" but this has to count
> as insanely impressive.
I gu
On Sun, Jul 4, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Sturla Molden wrote:
> I was just looking at Debian's benchmark. LuaJIT is now (on median)
> beating Intel Fortran! Consider that Lua is a dynamic language very
> similar to Python. I know it's "just a benchmark" but this has to count
> as insanely impressive. Beati
