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selimnairb 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a mino...

Right, lots of legacy code, plus lack of pointer aliasing in Fortran opens up more opportunities for optimization (or so I have read; this might have changed).

rightbyte 7 months ago [–]

'restrict' has been an common extension in C since long ago and is now a proper keyword.

I guess it is a matter of taste.

baq 7 months ago | [–]

also a matter of 'I'm not going to rewrite lapack in C because a platform which was never the intended target doesn't have a free compiler'.

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