So I wondered for a second why there is no simple `Float` type, and found the answer here (in case you don't know already) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/1tDvMbfCUEE
On Saturday, 5 July 2014 14:19:39 UTC-5, Michael Louwrens wrote: > > Makes sense! > > Not sure why I did that in the 1st place. > > Interestingly, Julia gets 100ms if I simply use @time testFunction(), on > par with c++. > > Using > testFunction() > @time testFunction() > > To compile speeds it up to 57ms, the fastest of all the languages tested! >
