Comment by nyeah
16 hours ago
I really disagree. That's not the only point of NumPy. A lot of people use it like Matlab, to answer questions with minimal coding time, not minimal runtime.
16 hours ago
I really disagree. That's not the only point of NumPy. A lot of people use it like Matlab, to answer questions with minimal coding time, not minimal runtime.
I mean sure, the fact that it is performant means tons of functionality is built on it that is hard to find elsewhere.
But the point is still that the main purpose in building it was to be performant. To be accelerated. Even if that's not why you're personally using it.
I mean, I use my M4 Mac's Spotlight to do simple arithmetic. That's not the main point in building the M4 chip though.
As best I can see, you weren't originally talking about the reason for creating NumPy. Instead you seemed to be talking about the reason for using NumPy.