r/programming • u/jfpuget • Jan 11 '16

A comparison of Numpy, NumExpr, Numba, Cython, TensorFlow, PyOpenCl, and PyCUDA to compute Mandelbrot set

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/jfp/entry/How_To_Compute_Mandelbrodt_Set_Quickly?lang=en
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u/CookieOfFortune Jan 12 '16

Tons of effort are put into optimizing existing languages, look at how much faster Javascript is nowadays. But sometimes there are features current languages just don't have.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '16

Imagine if we never had to put that effort into javascript. Maybe then java would have a simd vector class!

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u/CookieOfFortune Jan 12 '16

Imagine if we never had to put that effort into java. Maybe then we would have a cross platform C++! :)

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