A faster Python?, Python compiler, Dylan,...

[Robin Becker]

In article <3CAAEF17.32333986 at kfunigraz.ac.at>, Siegfried Gonzi
<siegfried.gonzi at kfunigraz.ac.at> writes
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>Good to see that my assumption that Numeric is not slower than Matlab or
>IDL can be confirmed.
>
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a while ago I translated a matlab generational accounting model into
Python+Numeric. The result was faster than the DLLs generated for matlab
by a proprietary compiler. It was certainly a bit faster than the
original matlab. Incidentally I think much of the speed improvement over
the compiler form was due to the non-copying slices in Numeric (ie more
work and much more memory was used in the DLL form). I understand some
propose to change that.
-- 
Robin Becker