Comment by novaplan2026
4 days ago
still blows my mind that half the python data science stack is basically just a wrapper around 40 year old fortran code.
4 days ago
still blows my mind that half the python data science stack is basically just a wrapper around 40 year old fortran code.
I've read that, but I tried to find some examples and couldn't.
At this point it has been translated to C and now they patch the C directly but: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/tree/main/numpy/linalg/lapack...
I think the idea is that blas + lapack are still at the foundation of basically the whole stack. Back in the day (or at least when I last looked), numpy was very much built on of them, and the rest of the data science stack was built on top of numpy. No idea how much these things are still the case.