From 2b78a936f3ed924961731d607260383b65882f73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chen Liu Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:11:12 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] add link to Numba --- docs/scenarios/scientific.rst | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/scenarios/scientific.rst b/docs/scenarios/scientific.rst index 0d45807..e955065 100644 --- a/docs/scenarios/scientific.rst +++ b/docs/scenarios/scientific.rst @@ -53,10 +53,11 @@ NumPy is compatible with Python versions 2.4 through to 2.7.2 and 3.1+. Numba ----- -Numba is an Numpy aware Python compiler (just-in-time (JIT) specializing -compiler) which compiles annotated Python (and Numpy) code to LLVM (Low Level -Virtual Machine) (through special decorators). -Briefly, Numba using system that compiles Python code with LLVM to code which + +`Numba `_ is an Numpy aware Python compiler +(just-in-time (JIT) specializing compiler) which compiles annotated Python (and +Numpy) code to LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) (through special decorators). +Briefly, Numba using system that compiles Python code with LLVM to code which can be natively executed at runtime. SciPy