About alternatives to Matlab

[Jon Harrop]

sturlamolden wrote:
> Jon Harrop wrote:
>> Yes. The time taken is dominated by memory accesses. The amount of
>> arithmetic is almost irrelevant.
> 
> That is extremely interesting. It would explain why I see almost the
> same performance in NumPy and Fortran 95 on this kind of task, using
> array slicing in both languages.

Yes. Non-sequential access is hugely expensive these days, and bounds
checking is virtually free. So that's one less reason to use C/C++... ;-)

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
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