You may see some better performance with julia 0.4-dev. The other thing to do that is easy is to start julia with the -O option that enables some more optimizations in the JIT, that may or may not help.
-viral On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 2:13:04 PM UTC+5:30, Ángel de Vicente wrote: > > Hi, > > On Wednesday, April 29, 2015 at 4:38:04 AM UTC+1, Michael Prentiss wrote: >> >> I implemented an program in Fortran and Julia for time comparison when >> learning the language. >> This was very helpful to find problems in how I was learning julia. >> Maybe I did not read carefully enough, >> but I would compile the fortran with the intel compilers (not MKL) >> instead of gcc as another means for >> comparing speed. The intel compilers tend to make faster executables. >> >> > indeed. We regularly use the Intel compilers for our projects in Fortran, > but for the moment I wanted to compare with gfortran for a fair comparison > against Julia (since Julia was compiled with gcc) > > I was hoping to later compile Julia with the Intel compilers and then > compare with the executable created with the Intel Fortran compiler, but I > had problems compiling Julia with the Intel compilers, and besides > apparently Julia will not get a big performance boost in any case. (And for > this toy program Intel doesn't seem to be able to get any performance boost > over gfortran). > > Cheers, > Ángel >
