Hello colleague, On Friday, May 15, 2015 at 12:08:10 PM UTC+2, Páll Haraldsson wrote: > > > Do I need to be worried? My guess is 0.4 might be faster and maybe already > be faster in all the cases below (do you know?): >
i'm allowed to write that, because i already did my share in benchmarking systems (20 years ago...): Benchmarks don't lie, but liars do benchmarks. The comparison of the runtime for the implementation of small synthetic programming problems in julia to other languages is a nice exercise and gives some numbers as indication. But the room for interpretation stops with that. I am seriously doubting that you see the same proportion of numbers if you go to non-synthetic benchmarks or real world programming cases. In the real world the performance of a program is dependend on a lot more things than choosing an implementation language (in my work 20 years ago, i benchmarked different fortran77 compilers on exactly the same system). Julia is a quite nice user friendly language, but the actual performance is happening in the compiler and the optimization steps provided by LLVM.
