Why I love Python: More rambling...

[Paul Rubin]

Fernando Perez <fperez528 at yahoo.com> writes:
> Full optimizations on, all debugging off.  The bottleneck was not
> the STL, but the Blitz++ array code.  The problem is that blitz
> template expressions are extremely complicated, and g++ is just not
> up to the task.  Tests made by a blitz developer with the SGI C++
> compiler show far better scaling (with the rank of the tensors), but
> I needed to run this on linux boxes using g++.

What is that madness?  Why not just write in C?