+1 Someone give this man a cookie. On 25 September 2015 at 01:46, Steven G. Johnson <stevenj....@gmail.com> wrote:
> To put it another way, there are plenty of problems that can't be > vectorized effectively. ODEs, matrix assembly for FEM or BEM, implementing > special functions... If you do enough scientific computing, eventually you > will hit a problem where you need to write your own inner loops, and then > with Matlab you need to drop down to C if performance matters. > > If all performance-critical computing were linear algebra, life would be a > lot simpler.