[Info-vax] OpenVMS async I/O, fast vs. slow

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Sun Nov 5 19:47:38 EST 2023


On 11/5/2023 7:39 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Fortran was very widely used back in the days in physics, astronomy,
> chemistry, biology, medicine, economics etc..
> 
> Some probably still use Fortran.
> 
> But a lot of that stuff are done in Python today. Today
> Python is the language for scientific computing.
> 
> Note that the interpreted Python is of course only
> "orchestrating" the number crunching - the number crunching
> itself are done in native code - Fortran, Fortran converted to C
> (yes!) or C.

And in case someone wonders.

SciPy should contain Fortran while NumPy should contain Fortran
converted to C.

Arne





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