Brian Rogoff:
On Sunday, 15 June 2014 at 12:20:13 UTC, bearophile wrote:
A language has both ~native efficiency and is usable for that
level of interactivity is Julia :-)
My own experiments with Julia massively contradict that
statement. I wrote some basic scripting programs that read
large text files into hash tables which count word occurrences
and Julia's performance was abysmal compared to D and Java.
Julia is in its infancy, while the JavaVM is the product of a lot
of work and tuning. I even expect Julia associative arrays to be
currently a little slower than CPython dicts :-) So it will take
years. But both D and Java are not as dynamic as Julia.
Bye,
bearophile
