Why I love Python: More rambling...

[Jeremy Fincher]

Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message news:<7xekwr6zsr.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>...
> 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?

Blitz++ is even faster than FORTRAN for some numeric computations.  I
doubt C could beat it.

Jeremy