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		gaius on June 11, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What’s to love about C? Right, but you would just link against the appropriate library, BLAS or whatever, that is hand-tuned for your platform and exposes a C API.

lmm on June 11, 2012 [–]

For the kind of problem where I can take that approach, I also have a python API onto BLAS, and guess which I prefer to write my programs in.

gaius on June 11, 2012 | [–]

There's nothing in the "Python way" that precludes dropping into C as and when it makes sense to do so. A C programmer is able to make that decision independently.

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