@Steven, we are not talking about the same thing. You are talking about vectorizing the code, while I am talking about vectorizing the function.
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 8:23 PM, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 12:30:57 PM UTC-4, Sisyphuss wrote: >> >> The following code is aimed to study the benefit of vectorization: >> > > (Don't assume that vectorization is beneficial. In general, vectorizing > your code in Julia leads to slower code, not faster code. e.g. compare x > = y + z + 3y + 4z^2, where y and z are vectors, to writing out the loops. > Vectorizing is much faster in languages like Python mainly because the > loops are slow.) >
