March 19, 2010
12:06 p.m.
Anne Archibald wrote:
(Which, honestly, makes me wonder what the point is of building multicore machines.)
Advertising... Oh, and having multiple cores slows down multi-threading in Python, so that feature is worth the expense!
But a language designed from scratch for vector calculations
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