[julia-users] Simple speed test

[Bob Cowdery]

I know this is hardly a scientific test but I'm curious why Julia is 5 
times slower than PyPy on an almost empty loop.

julia> x=0
julia> for n = 1:100000000
       x += 1
       end

Time 5s

PyPy  takes 1s and Python takes 19s for the equivalent loop. All executed 
from the command line.

Bob