-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05/09/08 08:19, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 09/05/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Remember, there's developer scale as well as execution scale. > > The execution scale is all that matters to us, since a wrong algorithm > or language can easily exacerbate execution times by orders of > magnitude, while developer time hardly ever suffers from several > orders of magnitude.
Then write your apps in FORTRAN. (But then, you aren't the OP...) > You're not going to convince a numericist to give up compiled > languages. :-) Give it up. I'm not going to try. Well, not much... Since all the functions are already written in a compiled language, what you're really doing is using Python as "stitching". You really ought to take a look at NumPy, and compare it to whatever you write in C/C++. In addition to the standard C->Python bindings, NumPy also has interfaces to your existing FORTRAN and C++ libraries. http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/BuildingArrays http://numpy.scipy.org// - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIJFOwS9HxQb37XmcRAhLPAJ0UI8GlQxitylk0CY6SLPYxhQhEUgCfcQT6 NhH5eVX+SUm/DRC2eZqECHw= =GOMn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]