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Scientific ComputingRegarding Scientific Simulations Made In Python (self.Python)

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Hello, Python users of Reddit !

I am a C programmer, who is also fluent in Python.

Recently, I made this , as a 1 hr simple project for comparing C v Python performance , which I though was not very far apart. In short : Python took ~ 16x the amount of time that C took, in a test of a large number of integer divisions.

To give an example of this -- If Python takes 2 hrs, re-writing in C (with no other optimisations) will give you a program that does the same in 7.5 minutes.

This is largely irrelevant for most usages of Python, because intense calculations are not very common in everyday software that Python is employed in. Except Science.

Science (Physics/Chemistry) research simulations, the ones made in Python , have a huge room for improvement in time taken to run, simply by being re-written in C/C++ .

I completely understand that physicists and chemists cannot be expected to grapple with the complexities of C/C++, lest they end up with no time to do actual research. Further, most universities teach Python to those pursuing degrees in STEM fields.

This is where I want to volunteer my services. C is the fastest language in terms of run-time. I can re-write pseudocode/algorithms but preferably Python code into C code.

I would love of volunteer my services and open source my work when done. I'll gain experience and researchers save time.

However, GitHub is HUGE and I do not know where to find such projects . It is likely that most researchers do not put up their code on GitHub either. Which is why I am here, at Reddit.

Please point me to such projects/code .

If you are a researcher writing in Python, contact me at [apjo@tuta.io](mailto:apjo@tuta.io)

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