[racket-users] Re: performance: Racket vs Julia

2019-02-03 Thread Gour
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 18:10:31 -0500 Matthias Felleisen wrote: > It is rare that I have to somewhat-contradict Matthew here, but so it > goes. :-) > Use Racket for what you have in mind. It’s obviously the superior > language :-) That makes the deal. Thank you very much for your input as well

[racket-users] Re: performance: Racket vs Julia

2019-02-03 Thread Gour
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 18:24:47 -0500 Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Yes, I did another look for Racket last year, and desktop GUI toolkit > options generally seem to have have actually gotten fewer and worse > since the move of most of the money to Web and handheld apps. Yes, very sad. :-( > We need to

Re: [racket-users] Re: performance: Racket vs Julia

2019-02-03 Thread Konrad Hinsen
Matthias Felleisen writes: > It is rare that I have to somewhat-contradict Matthew here, but so it goes. > > One of my colleagues, Jan Vitek, has studied Julia with a special > focus on performance. As many have said, Julia is good at numerics > because its compiler can specialize certain cases

Re: [racket-users] Re: performance: Racket vs Julia

2019-02-02 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Gour wrote on 2/2/19 3:55 PM: Many languages simply do not pass 'GUI criteria' and, imho, Racket is very much deprived of its glory by providing first class GUI option for all those not so enamored with JS/browser stuff. Yes, I did another look for Racket last year, and desktop GUI toolkit

Re: [racket-users] Re: performance: Racket vs Julia

2019-02-02 Thread Matthias Felleisen
It is rare that I have to somewhat-contradict Matthew here, but so it goes. One of my colleagues, Jan Vitek, has studied Julia with a special focus on performance. As many have said, Julia is good at numerics because its compiler can specialize certain cases really well. More generally, it

[racket-users] Re: performance: Racket vs Julia

2019-02-02 Thread Gour
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 08:04:36 -0700 Matthew Flatt wrote: > It's possible that the someone talked to me. I recall offering the > opinion to someone at RacketCon/ICFP/StrangeLoop that Racket would not > be as fast as Julia for the case that Julia is designed for --- > specifically numerics --- due

[racket-users] Re: performance: Racket vs Julia

2019-02-02 Thread Gour
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 04:53:33 -0500 Neil Van Dyke wrote: > That's an unusual shortlist of candidates.  Well, yes and no. Many languages simply do not pass 'GUI criteria' and, imho, Racket is very much deprived of its glory by providing first class GUI option for all those not so enamored with

[racket-users] Re: performance: Racket vs Julia

2019-02-02 Thread Gour
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 01:41:17 -0800 (PST) Yvan Godin wrote: > I have played with Julia as a language it's a good compromise between Common > Lisp with Python syntax and C performance > > but build an autonomous prog. come with a lot of pain That's good to know. Thank you! > their Gtk is far to

[racket-users] Re: performance: Racket vs Julia

2019-02-02 Thread Yvan Godin
Hello I have played with Julia as a language it's a good compromise between Common Lisp with Python syntax and C performance but build an autonomous prog. come with a lot of pain Racket come with an excellent battery include Julia is based on LLVM witch is very very big Julia provide a real