I would title this blog post by Doug Bates: "Julia: Fast for Free" http://dmbates.blogspot.com/2012/05/simple-gibbs-example-in-julia.html … The Julia team is doing amazing work!
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@avibryant@johnmyleswhite so then much of julia's speed = skill of implementors, not lang design? -
@hadleywickham@johnmyleswhite to my eye, Julia was skilfully designed to be able to take full advantage of modern implementation techniques -
@hadleywickham@johnmyleswhite ... but average dynamic language implementors would not have the skill to make that design performant :) -
@avibryant@hadleywickham If you want to understand how Julia gets its speed, consider this toy example: https://gist.github.com/johnmyleswhite/6195659 … -
@johnmyleswhite I don't think that's a great example b/c depends on knowing julia's name binding rules -
@hadleywickham In what sense? -
@johnmyleswhite because type of x can't change within function but can at global level? - 6 more replies
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