I got to about 0.55 seconds with the above suggestions. Still about 2x slower than Python unfortunately. The reason I find it necessary for hashing to work quickly is that I use it heavily for both NLP and when serving data on a Julia webserver. Thanks a lot for the suggestions.
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 12:15:21 AM UTC-8, Roman Sinayev wrote: > > Why is Julia 2x slower than Python on this test? > > https://gist.github.com/lqdc/9342237 >
