Python is far from a top performer according to benchmark test...

[Rainer Deyke]

Samuel Walters wrote:
> So, I guess that my point is that C might not be the right language
> for doing numerical processing, but it seems the right language for
> implementing the primitives of numerical processing.

The issue with C is that it is too slow for implementing those primitives
(in part due to pointer aliasing issues).  Fortran is considerably faster.


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