p.s. I am running: - MATLAB Version: 8.1.0.604 (R2013a) - Julia Version 0.2.0 (2013-11-16 23:48 UTC)
on a DELL with Intel Core i7 and Kubuntu 13.10 cheers, andrea On Friday, 17 January 2014 19:21:21 UTC, Andrea Vigliotti wrote: > > Hi All, > > I was comparing the performance of Julia and Matlab in solving systems of > linear equations and I got the following > > Matlab: > >> A = randn(1000); A = A+A'+eye(1000); x = randn(1000,1); > >> tic; A\x; toc > Elapsed time is 0.034763 seconds. > > Julia: > julia> A = randn(1000,1000); A = A+A'+eye(1000); x = randn(1000); > > julia> @time A\x; > elapsed time: 0.192572124 seconds (8012424 bytes allocated) > > I was wondering whether there is anything I can do to improve the > performances of Julia in solving this kind of problems? > > many thanks! > andrea >
