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by chadillac83 4932 days ago
LUA might be good for this too, it's pretty fast on it's own but from what I've read (not tested mind you) their C API is supposed to be pretty great.

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/which-programs-a...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lua_(programming_language)#C_AP...
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freyrs3 4932 days ago
Lua has some areas where it excels in performance, but using Python you can leverage 10 years of work on numeric libraries that unrivaled in any other general purpose language. NumPy and SciPy are extremely powerful.
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draegtun 4932 days ago
One rival would be PDL which has been around for over 16 years on Perl.

Some refs:

- http://pdl.perl.org/

- http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2012/06/adapting-p...

- http://blogs.perl.org/users/david_mertens/2011/06/cuda-and-t...

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