Filip Wasilewski wrote: > As far as the speed comparison is concerned I totally agree that NumPy > can easily outperform Matlab in most cases. Of course one can use > compiled low-level extensions to speed up specific computations in > Matlab, but it's a lot easier and/or cheaper to find very good tools > for Python.
These benchmarks are interesting. Perhaps someone could elaborate: When is python faster than Matlab and when is it slower? As far as I understand, recent versions of Matlab include a jit, but cpython does not (unless you use psyco). Can python do faster do-loops than matlab? Does the matrix backend of python perform faster than a the matrix backend of Matlab? What is going on? Thanks in advance Niels BTW: I feel obliged to provide a small link to your upcoming wavelet code for scipy. It looks promising: http://wavelets.scipy.org/moin/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list