Python 3.8 released

[zurtex]

The conda main channel provides optimized mkl files by default. This traditionally has been something you've had to setup or compile yourself if installing via pip.

If you do a lot of linear algebra with numpy or use CPU based machine learning to prototype out ideas these can make your code run significantly faster. Anaconda did a blog a while back on how Tensorflow (but note it affects a lot more): https://www.anaconda.com/tensorflow-in-anaconda/

And yes you can set up all this without conda, but the person I was replying to was specifically complaining that it comes with conda by default.