[julia-users] Re: Julia code 5x to 30x slower than Matlab code

[Marcio Sales]

>
> Matlab *requires* vectorized code because Matlab loops are very slow by 
> comparison
>
It is much faster these days (from R2014). I remember I ran some very 
simple comparisons and it surprised me that Matlab ran a bit faster than 
Julia in a for loop of matrices multiplications and inversions. However, I 
ran the loop from the REPL and maybe there are better ways to do it.