On Jul 13, 10:50 pm, saucerful <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was interested in seeing the performance differences between MATLAB > and some open source offerings so I googled and came across > this:http://www.sciviews.org/benchmark/index.html >
I have seen this benchmark, it's outdated and i think totally wrong. > Of course, for a significant number of applications, performance is > less important than say, built in features, ease of use, clarity of > code, interoperability with other software, etc. You forget one point (for me the probably biggest one) - the community. Especially around matlab you have a wide range of "open source" (public domain, do what you want. ..) code on the web, spread over many websites. So, if you need some functionality, you can get it quite easily. Quite similar is the case with R, which is open source and collects packages centralized. There you don't have such a chaos as with matlab, but still a similar community around R. I also know that this holds in some cases for mathematica, where you restrict yourself to mma by writing mma code that you want to use. In my eyes, this is the same vendor lock-in as with .doc/.xls + VBA-basic in the office world. The difference is, that in an open-source scenario that lock-in is considered "good", since it creates a community ;) Harald --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
