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Expand Up @@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ NumPy is compatible with Python versions 2.4 through to 2.7.2 and 3.1+.

Numba
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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
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