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		Affric on Nov 9, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SciPy builds for Python 3.12 on Windows are a mino... Are the often used in the big linear algebra libraries?

not2b on Nov 9, 2023 [–]

No. The math libraries are written in Fortran 77 for the most part, which did not have pointers. I should have been more precise about that.

Affric on Nov 11, 2023 | [–]

Thanks for clarifying, I was intrigued by your comment and it seemed you’d know.

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