About alternatives to Matlab

Carl Banks pavlovevidence at gmail.com
Sat Dec 2 18:28:52 CET 2006


Carl Banks wrote:
> Matlab has a few *cough* limitations when it comes to hand-optimizing.
> When writing naive code, Matlab often is faster than Python with numpy
> because it has many commerical man-year of optimizing behind it.
> However, Matlab helps v

That should say:

However, Matlab helps very little when you need to speed things up, or
(especially) use less memory than the naive way.


Carl Banks



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