In article <[email protected]>, Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 15Feb2014 12:10, Rita <[email protected]> wrote: > > i just inherited a large python code base and I would like to optimize the > > code (run faster). The application is a scientific application so I really > > don't understand the internal logic. > [...] > > One thing I would keep in mind is that scientific applications > generally involve floating point math. That is subject to loss of > precision if done the wrong way. Another thing to keep in mind is that scientific applications are often written by {physicists, chemists, astronomers, etc} who have no clue about how floating point math, or indeed much of anything about computers, works :-) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
