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by TeMPOraL 583 days ago
Pot, meet kettle? It's usually the industry that's leading with "write inefficient code, hardware is cheaper than dev time" approach. If anything, I'd expect a long-running physics research project to have well-optimized code. After all, that's where all the optimized math routines come from.
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I bet the bulk of it is still super-fast Fortran code.