Hi Jeff, can you share a link? Cheers, Kevin
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 1:06 PM, Jeff Waller <[email protected]> wrote: > So I'm happy to announce version 1.0.0 of node-julia, a Julia engine > embedded in node, > and io.js now too. It's been a pretty long road and I owe many people > (perhaps reading > this now) a lot. I've said many times (maybe not on this forum) that > enabling people is > the important part and I hope this tool does that. > > Some of the new features supported since my first update here (in Sept). > > * both asynchronous and synchronous processing <---- uses libuv > (inside joke) > * use of Javascript typed arrays were possible > * Julia composites in JavaScript as (the opaque) JRef > * functionalized Scripts > > All those keywords are probably not that interesting, but I can share this > which might be. I've > done some early testing on simple matrix multiplications (will blog, but > not done), and it turns > out it's actually faster to copy the array from JavaScript into the Julia > engine multiply and then > copy the result back out than to use JavaScript directly for most matrices > (maybe not 3x3). > And when compared to the other popular linear algebra packages for node, > Julia-within-node > can be a lot faster -- sometimes 1000x faster. >
