C is it always faster than nump?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2022-02-25, Richard Damon <Richard at Damon-Family.org> wrote:
> On 2/25/22 4:12 AM, BELAHCENE Abdelkader wrote:
>> Hi,
>> a lot of people think that C (or C++) is faster than python, yes I agree,
>> but I think that's not the case with numpy, I believe numpy is faster than
>> C, at least in some cases.
>
> My understanding is that numpy is written in C,

Sort of. IIRC a lot of the heavly lifting is done by libraries like
BLAS and LAPAK that were written in FORTRAN the last time I checked.

Has that changed?

Or am I conflating numpy with some other scientific-python stuff. Back
when I did a lot of numerical stuff in Python, I remember spending a
lot of time watching FORTRAN compiles. Admittedly, that's getting to
be 10+ years ago...

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Grant