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by secondcoming 32 days ago
numpy is a python wrapper over a C library written by people who have ground those gears
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Yes but not all of them

It would be easy to push complexity up at the level of Numpy/Pytorch/Tensorflow but it mostly gets hidden

(also a lot of it relies on LAPACK which is Fortran - which kinda works with SIMD better than C/C++)