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gaius
on Nov 5, 2009
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Python in the Scientific World
Everyone uses LAPACK. If you came along with your own versions of those routines, no-one would would trust them. LAPACK et al are the most optimized, most debugged code on the planet. Hardware vendors design around LAPACK. It's incredibly important.
Also check out Sage:
http://www.sagemath.org/
adw
on Nov 5, 2009
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Yep. The Intel F9x compiler smokes everything - at least in part because its versions of LAPACK/BLAS/ATLAS are so aggressively optimized.
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