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I love numba, but I am never successful at compiling it.

Using the Anaconda distribution results in some issues as that distribution is not compatible with some other libraries and requires installing everything through conda.

Most packages use Cython for this reason instead.



I failed to get numba installed on a Raspberry Pi 2, and I'd been wanting to try Nim, which turned out to be easy to compile on the RPi running Ubuntu.

  nim -r -d:release c rw_fibn.nim                                                  
  ...

  Hint: operation successful (12152 lines compiled; 2.632 sec total; 8.870MB; Release Build) [SuccessX]
  /home/rw/git/Nim/examples/rw_fibn

  Result = 8944394323791464
  elapsed time: 5.376946926116943
My first try at translating Python to Nim:

$ cat rw_fibn.nim

  import times

  proc fibn(reps: int64, num: int): int64 =
    var z: int64
    for r in 1..reps:
      var
        p1, p2: int64 = 1
        rnum: int = num - 2
      for i in 1..rnum:
        z = p1 + p2
        p2 = p1
        p1 = z

    return z

  var start: float = times.epochTime()
  var res = fibn(10_000_000, 78)
  var finish: float = times.epochTime()

  echo("Result = ", res)
  echo("elapsed time: ", finish - start)




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