From 8b794b19c3eb843f3c0e052074e27be0739e145b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ugurthemaster Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 09:25:51 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Update scientific.rst Description about Numba has been added. --- docs/scenarios/scientific.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/scenarios/scientific.rst b/docs/scenarios/scientific.rst index 49d5c88..763fa2e 100644 --- a/docs/scenarios/scientific.rst +++ b/docs/scenarios/scientific.rst @@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ 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 +can be natively executed at runtime. .. todo:: Write about Numba SciPy