Also, that's a 1.5% performance difference which is pretty negligible.

> On Jan 8, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Stefan Karpinski <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> You're really just comparing BLASes. So the question is what BLAS is each 
> system using? You can find out in Julia using versioninfo().
> 
> 
>> On Jan 8, 2015, at 1:27 PM, Dakota St. Laurent <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> hi all, I've been trying to test some simple benchmarks for my new job to 
>> see what language we should use between Python (Numpy/Scipy) and Julia. I 
>> like how simple it seems for Julia to do things in parallel (we plan to be 
>> running code on a supercomputer using lots and lots of cores), but I'm not 
>> getting the ideal benchmarks. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong here.
>> 
>> Python code:
>> 
>> import time, numpy as np
>> N = 25000
>> A = np.random.rand(N,N)
>> x = np.random.rand(N)
>> 
>> t0 = time.clock()
>> A.dot(x)
>> print time.clock() - t0
>> 
>> --------------------------------
>> 
>> Julia code:
>> 
>> function rand_mat_vec_mul(A::Array{Float64, 2}, x::Array{Float64,1})
>>  tic()
>>  A * x
>>  toc()
>> end
>> 
>> # warmup
>> rand_mat_vec_mul(rand(1000,1000), rand(1000))
>> rand_mat_vec_mul(rand(1000,1000), rand(1000))
>> rand_mat_vec_mul(rand(1000,1000), rand(1000))
>> 
>> # timing
>> rand_mat_vec_mul(rand(25000,25000), rand(25000))
>> 
>> ---------------------------
>> 
>> Python generally takes about 0.630 - 0.635 seconds, Julia generally takes 
>> about 0.640 - 0.650 seconds. as I said, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong, 
>> I'm just not really sure what. any help is appreciated :)

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