I am pretty sure must something specific to your installation. On my machine
``` Darwin Kernel Version 14.5.0: Wed Jul 29 02:26:53 PDT 2015; RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 ``` running the code, I get the following timings: ``` julia> timeit(1000,1000) GFlop = 2.4503017546610866 GFlop (SIMD) = 11.622906423980382 ``` On Friday, November 6, 2015 at 12:15:47 AM UTC+1, DNF wrote: > > I install using homebrew from here: > https://github.com/staticfloat/homebrew-julia > > I have limited understanding of the process, but believe there is some > compilation involved. >
