On 31/10/2013 13:17, Alain Ketterlin wrote:
"E.D.G." <[email protected]> writes:The calculation speed question just involves relatively simple math such as multiplications and divisions and trig calculations such as sin and tan etc.These are not "simple" computations. Any compiled language (Fortran, C, C++, typically) will probably go much faster than any interpreted/bytecode-based language (like python or perl, anything that does not use a jit).
From http://docs.python.org/3/library/math.html "CPython implementation detail: The math module consists mostly of thin wrappers around the platform C math library functions."
There's only one way I know of to find if it's actually fast enough and that's test it.
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