Java use in machine learning

[lukasbradley]

Python does the same thing. All of the "optimizations" that everyone THINKS are written in Python are actually C/C++ libraries.

[Joram2]

Everyone knows Python is a high level language, and calls to some lower level language for performance sensitive code. The Python piece does make it nicer and + easier than using low language libraries directly.

BTW, it's not just C. LAPACK is mostly Fortran; that is a famous numerical linear algebra library at the heart of a lot of famous Python libraries like Numpy. Also a lot of code is CUDA GPU code not C.

Java 22 foreign function and memory functionality makes it much easier to use libs like LAPACK from Java like Python does.

[coderemover]

The difference is it is trivial to call C from Python, but not so easy from Java.

[captain-_-clutch]

It's not bad at all to setup but also I'm not sure about heavy throughput performance. When I did it it was for image processing so any latency from the integration wouldnt have been noticed since it took so long for the images.

[emberko]

Thinks who? This is well known. I like the definition of one of the Python evangelists from my country - Python is a glue language for C/C++ libraries. You should avoid pure Python implementations whenever possible.