Dear Jonathan, That's great to hear that you are actively contributing to Julia's text processing capabilities.
My use case has all of the text functions that you mentioned, so, thanks for the info. It looks like the nearest competitor is Python, and Julia's performance is see-sawing compared to Python in the regexp area... I'll be in touch. Best Regards, Venkat. On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:34 PM, Jonathan Malmaud <[email protected]> wrote: > It really depends on what you mean by 'text processing' - if the critical > section of your code is essentially a loop that iterates over > characters/words of large strings, then Julia could be between 1 and 2 > orders of magnitude faster. > > If you mean the performance of core string-processing library functions > like "replace" and regular expression matching, speed will likely be within > 2x of Python in either direction, although AFAIK it has not been rigorously > benchmarked. > > I am using Jula extensively for text processing so I'm happy to discuss > your specific workflow in more detail. I and a few other Julia contributors > are eager to have Julia be a strong player in text processing. > > > On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 8:50:12 AM UTC-4, Venkat Ramakrishnan > wrote: >> >> Thanks Mauro. >> >> Unfortunately, the video doesn't mention any performance benchmarks >> that they considered as compared to other languages, before they selected >> Julia. Nor their website mentioned in the video. >> >> Anyone else have clues/pointers to information? >> >> Regards, >> Venkat. >> >> On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 00:13:03 UTC+5:30, Mauro wrote: >>> >>> This may have answers: >>> https://youtu.be/dgfIIZ5yA4E >>> (though I haven't watched it yet) >>> >>> On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 14:42, Venkat Ramakrishnan <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Folks, >>> > >>> > How fast is Julia compared to other languages like R and Python in >>> text >>> > processing? >>> > Any benchmarks? >>> > >>> > Any parallel processing facility specifically available for text >>> processing >>> > in Julia? >>> > >>> > Thanks, >>> > Venkat. >>> >>>
