Thanks Steven. I guess since Julia projects itself as a better-performance language, it would be worthwhile to post the various performance benchmarks (text, math ops, i/o, etc) on its web-page on every major release as compared to its peer's current versions, if not done already which I am not aware of?
It's very important for application developers to have the official benchmark numbers while making an informed decision on selecting a language. Thanks. On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, September 2, 2015 at 12:19:33 PM UTC-4, Steven G. Johnson > wrote: >> >> Note that regexps in Julia are implemented with the PCRE library. If you >> google "PCRE vs Python" you'll find several comparisons. The upshot seems >> to be that PCRE is about 2x slower than Python's regex implementation >> (which is also written in C, of course) for many common tasks, but PCRE is >> more full-featured (as long as you are willing to restrict yourself to the >> UTF-8 encoding, which is the default in Julia). >> > > Hmm, I've found other benchmarks claiming that Python is slower than > PCRE. All of the online benchmarks seem to be pretty old, though, so I'm > not sure what the true story is these days. >
