Is it fair to say in summary (that for this specific GA example): - Using a Real type makes the Julia code 10x slower than C++ - Using a Float32 type makes the Julia code 2x faster than C++ (with no other optimizations.)
As a side note: @Michael: how long have you been using Julia? On Monday, July 7, 2014 1:27:49 PM UTC+10, Michael Louwrens wrote: > > Glad the confusion is settled! > Sorry that it was worded so poorly! > > I was interested to see how much of a slowdown was introduced by using oop > style functions. > > Surprisingly the slowdown was only around 15% when the functions were > declared in a similar style to below. > > > Type atype > Bar::function > Function atype() > This = new() > Function foo() > ... > End > Function foo(in::int) > ... > End > This.bar = foo > Return This > End > End > >
