No offense, but, the informal model of 'most stuff gets done by people who need it' leads to outdated information in external websites, as Steven had pointed out. I don't see why it would be any different if I do it (or) someone else does it in an external site and puts the link in the julia webpage.
But, yes, point taken about contributing to the project. Thx, Venkat. On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Tim Holy <[email protected]> wrote: > Most stuff gets done by people who need it. If this is important to you but > doesn't exist, your best bet is to do it yourself and contribute it to the > project. I bet there would be interest in adding your benchmarks somewhere > accessible from the web page. > > Best, > --Tim > > On Thursday, September 03, 2015 01:09:01 PM Venkat Ramakrishnan wrote: > > 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. > >
