Comment by bee_rider

Numpy is mostly just an interface to BLAS/Lapack, but for Python, right? BLAS/Lapack aren’t clever libraries for doing a ton of small operations, they are simple libraries for doing the easy thing (operations on big dense matrices) about as well as the hardware can.

Numpy is what it is. Seems more disappointing that he had trouble with the more flexible libraries like Jax.

Anyway there’s a clear split between the sort of functionality that Numpy specializes in and the sort that Jax does, and they don’t benefit much from stepping on each other’s toes, right?