cg626/smop repository overview

SMOP is Small Matlab and Octave to Python compiler. SMOP translates matlab to python. Despite obvious similarities between matlab and numeric python, there are enough differences to make manual translation infeasible in real life. SMOP generates human-readable python, which also appears to be faster than octave. Just how fast? Timing results for "Moving furniture" are shown in Table 1. It seems that for this program, translation to python resulted in about two times speedup, and additional two times speedup was achieved by compiling SMOP run-time library runtime.py to C, using cython. This pseudo-benchmark measures scalar performance, and my interpretation is that scalar computations are of less interest to the octave team.

⁠Dockerfile

FROM rackspacedot/python37

RUN pip install smop && \
    pip install networkx==2.3 && \
    pip install pandas numpy

WORKDIR /wdir
 
CMD ["smop"]