On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 12:17:25 PM UTC, Marcio Sales wrote: > > Wow. All this discussion to make Julia only *as fast as* the old > scripting languages? >
This is not what I meant. Matching C is the goal I understand and often that goal is met. *Should* always be possible. A. By matching the speed C/C++ (and I guess Fortran that I'm not too familiar with) the length of your code shouldn't be longer. It might very well be shorter and still not slower. B. Some other languages (such as Haskell or scripting languages), can be very concise. And sometimes there is not much speed penalty. It would be ideal to also have (as) short code and not pay a price in speed. That is the only thing I meant.
