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Commit be71968d authored by Pierre Augier's avatar Pierre Augier
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Shorter opening paragraph

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Zwart recently published in Nature Astronomy a comment on **The ecological
impact of high-performance computing in astrophysics** \cite{Zwart2020}. The
take-home message is that scientists should be mindfull of their carbon
footprint and we fully agree. One of the proposed solution is to avoid the
Python programming language. We advocate that it would be counterproductive and
that scientific programs written in Python can be efficient and energy
friendly. We argue that advancement of compiler technology, human factors and
education are much more important than choice of language.
We read with attention the comment by Zwart on **The ecological impact of
high-performance computing in astrophysics** \cite{Zwart2020}. We fully agree
with its take-home message: scientists should be mindfull of their carbon
footprint. One of the proposed solution is to avoid the Python programming
language. We advocate that it would be counterproductive and that scientific
programs written in Python can be efficient and energy friendly. We argue that
advancement of compiler technology, human factors and education are much more
important than choice of language.
To support his idea, Zwart presents a benchmark of the N-Body problem with an
inefficient implementation in Python, running 50 times slower than a C++
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Figures 1 and 3, all along section 3 "The role of language on the ecology" and
in the conclusions. We rewrote the first paragraph which is now:
"Zwart recently published in Nature Astronomy a comment on The ecological
impact of high-performance computing in astrophysics \cite{Zwart2020}. The
take-home message is that scientists should be mindfull of their carbon
footprint and we fully agree. One of the proposed solution is to avoid the
Python programming language. We advocate that it would be counterproductive and
that scientific programs written in Python can be efficient and energy
friendly. We argue that advancement of compiler technology, human factors and
education are much more important than choice of language."
"We read with attention the comment by Zwart on **The ecological impact of
high-performance computing in astrophysics** \cite{Zwart2020}. We fully agree
with its take-home message: scientists should be mindfull of their carbon
footprint. One of the proposed solution is to avoid the Python programming
language. We advocate that it would be counterproductive and that scientific
programs written in Python can be efficient and energy friendly. We argue that
advancement of compiler technology, human factors and education are much more
important than choice of language."
Regarding the length of our text, we tried to reduce it by rewording and
cutting unnecessary words. You suggested to remove the first half of the
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