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by enriquto 1880 days ago
In many numerical math, you do not need fancy data structures. Just loops over huge arrays of floating point numbers, performing a simple operation inside the loop. Said operation may have a small bit of complexity inside, thus it cannot be "vectorized" readily. Implementing this kind of algorithms is either cumbersome or extremely slow in Python, but in Fortran or C it is straightforward and fast.