Re: [julia-users] Julia computational efficiency vs C vs Java vs Python vs Cython

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le mercredi 15 janvier 2014 à 22:39 -0800, Tobias Knopp a écrit :
> But why isn't float32 promoting to float64 on basic arithmetics then? 
> 
> As Markus pointed out, when we get SIMD support (in the form of the
> @simd macro or by autovectorization of llvm) there can be a factor of
> two between both integer computations.
> 
> P.S.: Hope you don't get this wrong. Its just a very minor nitpick on
> one of the most awesome type systems I have ever seen. 
Don't be sorry -- they only get what they deserve for creating Julia: we
have become greedy too. ;-)