[pypy-commit] extradoc extradoc: Add an abstract

[fijal]

Author: Maciej Fijalkowski <fijall at gmail.com>
Branch: extradoc
Changeset: r3983:a2c53a086126
Date: 2011-12-12 22:42 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/extradoc/changeset/a2c53a086126/

Log:	Add an abstract

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+Fast numeric in Python - NumPy and PyPy
+=======================================
+
+Python has seen a growing adoption as a new scientific processing language
+in the past few years. It has been successfully used as a glue language
+to drive various simulations implemented in either C, Fortran or the array
+manipulation language implemented in the NumPy package. Originally the main
+reason why Python was used only as a glue language is because the original
+Python implementation is relatively slow. With the recent progress in the PyPy
+project, it has been shown that while still not at C speeds, it has been
+gaining significant performance improvements the releases, bringing it
+closer and closer to C-level speeds. In this talk I would like to explore
+how to use it right now, in the near future and our plans to provide a very
+robust infrastructure for implementing numerical computations. I will also
+spend some time exploring the ideas how dynamic compilation can eventually
+outperform static compilation and how having a high-level language helps here.