On 2015-08-07, rogerh...@gmail.com <rogerh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can anyone compare PyNum calculation speed to Fortran? > > This is for a number crunching program working with large files.
Well I can tell you how the numerical analysis and data visualization programs _I_ use to write would compare to Fortran: The Python programs were infinitely faster than Fortran because the probability I could have gotten equivelent Fortran programs to work before the data became moot was pretty much zero. On a more serious note, almost all of the heavy lifting in the programs I wrote (array operations, curve fitting, Delaunay triangulation, etc.) was all done by libraries written in Fortan and C. So I doubt the difference between Fortran and Python would have mattered (assuming I _could_ have written equivalent programs in Fortran). -- Grant -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
