On Wed, 2016-01-27 at 20:34, Joshua Ballanco <[email protected]> wrote: > One last point (something I’ve been meaning to look at but haven’t had > the time): reading CSV files off disk was about 10x faster in Clojure > than Julia. Something else to consider.
I think this package makes this much faster: https://github.com/JuliaDB/CSV.jl > On January 27, 2016 at 20:11:22, Ismael VC ([email protected]) wrote: > > I dont know if you can call Julia from Java, but you can call Java from > Julia, see: > > *https://github.com/aviks/JavaCall.jl > *https://github.com/aviks/JavaCall.jl > > Ismael Venegas Castelló > Data Analyst > Cel. 044 55 6434 0229 > [email protected] > Cerro San Francisco 357, C.P. 04200 > Campestre Churubusco, Coyoacán > Ciudad de México > > > Tel. 6718 1818 > richit.com.mx > 2016-01-27 10:14 GMT-06:00 Mike Innes <[email protected]>: > With Clojure you're likely to get much better deployment / networking > support, as well as the general robustness and tooling of the JVM. It's also > really expressive for data manipulation (though not necessarily fast). Julia > loses out on that but will blow Clojure out of the water for anything more > computationally advanced; numerics, fiddly data structures etc. > > To over simplify the decision a little, I'd probably use Clojure for > something running indefinitely (e.g. web server) and Julia for something > finite (e.g. a simulation). But I think you just have to look at what you > expect the key pain points to be, and compare that to the strengths of each > language. > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 at 04:07 George <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm working on a scientific simulation that is going to require a distributed > environment. There has been some discussion about whether to use Julia or > Clojure for this project. A few micro benchmarks seem to have different > results for each language. I'm not yet sold as to which language may be more > expressive in this situation, but Lisp might be a preferred option > mathematically for modeling purposes. > > Does anyone have any practical experience in dealing with both of these > languages and what your experiences were? > > Are there any meaningful benchmarks that compare the two, especially in a > distributed environment? > > > Thanks! > > -George
