Russell's Blog

Languages like Python are great for tasks that require manipulating complicated data. The main complaint about such languages is that they aren't as fast as compiled languages. For scientific computing (and a lot of other things), that's a show-stopper. However...

from weave import inline
a = 25
code = \
	"""
	int i = a;
	while( i > 1 ) {
		printf("a number: %d\\n",i);
		i = i / 2;
	}
	return_val = i;
	"""
inline(code, ['a'])
===output===

a number: 25
a number: 12
a number: 6
a number: 3
1

My mind just spins thinking of all the horrible, horrible things I can do with that.