[sritchie]

Ah, this is really interesting. I knew that far more work had gone into the code NumPy rides on (of course), but not really much more than that.

I rewrote my clojure code to use JBLAS (jblas.org) and found stunning improvements: https://gist.github.com/264a2756fc657140fdb8

[pron]

Well, Incanter (http://incanter.org/) uses Parallel Colt (https://sites.google.com/site/piotrwendykier/software/parall...) which, in turn and if I'm not mistaken, uses BLAS, LAPACK etc.