I just got an Intel newsletter describing "Intel Distribution for Python".
Quote: With Intel® Distribution for Python, it’s not unusual to see speed-ups of 20x (or more) for numerically intensive Python codes like those that use the Numpy* and SciPy* stack. Sounds very exiting; 20 times speed-up! Has anybody tried it and found this claim to be true? Ref: https://software.intel.com/en-us/distribution-for-python/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
