On 24 September 2015 at 19:55, Sisyphuss <zhengwend...@gmail.com> wrote:
> People won't apply my critique on Matlab or R, because these languages are > assumed to be slow and they must be slow. So there is no "risk/variance" > (in the good sense) for these language. No sooner one learns to write > vectorized code, than he reaches the limit of these languages. > I teach Matlab. My students show ridiculously high variance in the performance of their programs. I have to teach them about vectorized code, garbage collection and the like. I would have said that Matlab and R are assumed to be reasonably fast. Daniel.
