On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Francesco Abbate <francesco.bbt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I did actually use the standard Python interpreter (CPython) and the > program use numpy but if you can give a look to the file by yourself. > In my point of view it was a quite correct implementation and is not > surprising that CPython is soooo much slower :-) Indeed, it's not a surprise that CPython is much slower, but I thought Numpy would perform better than this, especially considering that it is growing in the scientific comunity and that it isn't still fully functional on PyPy. But that's completely off-topic on this list... Still, glad to know that we have a cool Lua alternative for math stuff. =) -- NI!