Python is slow?

[sturlamolden]

On Sep 23, 3:44 pm, Robert Singer <rsinger at ____.com> wrote:

> Well, python is not a number crunching language. However much we would
> like it to be (we would ? :-).

> No scripting language is.

Not even Matlab, R, IDL, Octave, SciLab, S-PLUS or Mathematica?


> Before resorting to rewriting the problem try psyco. It speeds up
> things sometimes.

I did, Psyco did not help.


> Also, (I'm not that familiar with python yet, so I don't know how to
> do it in python), try finding the bottlenecks of your calculation.

I did use a profiler, there is no particular single bottle-neck.


> Well, personally, I try to combine fortran (being a fortran programmer
> by trade) with python

Good compilers are too expensive, and gfortran is not good enough yet.