OT: why do people use python when it is slow?

[Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thu, 2015-10-15 at 09:35 +0000, Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-
d-learn wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 October 2015 at 07:57:51 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > lot better than it could be. From small experiments D is (and 
> > also Chapel is even more) hugely faster than Python/NumPy at 
> > things Python people think NumPy is brilliant for. Expectations
> 
> Have you had a chance to look at PyOpenCL and PYCUDA?

Yes. 

CUDA is of course doomed in the long run as Intel put GPGPU on the
processor chip. OpenCL will eventually be replaced with Vulkan
(assuming they can get the chips made).

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