But unless the optimizations change the complexity, you're still going to be ver...

gwern on July 20, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Sof...

But unless the optimizations change the complexity, you're still going to be very limited: the constant factors may let you go from 1 cell in Matlab to 100 cells in C on the same hardware, but that's still just 100 cells and now you're stuck.