Dahua: On my setup, most of the time is spent in the log function.
On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 3:52:07 AM UTC+12, Florian Oswald wrote: > > Dear all, > > I thought you might find this paper interesting: > http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/comparison_languages.pdf > > It takes a standard model from macro economics and computes it's solution > with an identical algorithm in several languages. Julia is roughly 2.6 > times slower than the best C++ executable. I was bit puzzled by the result, > since in the benchmarks on http://julialang.org/, the slowest test is > 1.66 times C. I realize that those benchmarks can't cover all possible > situations. That said, I couldn't really find anything unusual in the Julia > code, did some profiling and removed type inference, but still that's as > fast as I got it. That's not to say that I'm disappointed, I still think > this is great. Did I miss something obvious here or is there something > specific to this algorithm? > > The codes are on github at > > https://github.com/jesusfv/Comparison-Programming-Languages-Economics > > >
