Python vs. Matlab

[Nadav Horesh]

Matlab is very handy because its impressive arsenal of plotting and
visualization tools. Some time ago I ported a wave propagation
simulation program from Matlab to Python+Numpy and observed the
following:

  1. Numpy was twice as fast (mostly 2D FFT)
  2. The Python memory requirement were about half (Matlab half speed
     observed when there was no memory deficiency, when running full
     scale simulation, the excess of paging made Matlab 5--10 times
     slower on a 256  MB machine).
  3. Python code was much more extensible, not sup rising considerint
     Matlab archaic Fortran-like syntax.

But for quick and dirty calculations with plotting, Matlab is still
better, since all its tools are accessible without any extra
programming.

    Nadav.
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