On Saturday, January 30, 2016 at 3:12:44 PM UTC-5, Andrew wrote: > > I just ran several of these benchmarks using the code and compilation > flags available at > https://github.com/jesusfv/Comparison-Programming-Languages-Economics . > On my computer Julia is faster than C, C++, and Fortran, which I find > surprising, unless some really dramatic optimization happened since 0.2. >
>From the 9 months since I learned about Julia, I have seen major improvements in different areas of performance (starting with v0.3.4, I'm now using v0.4.3 for work, and v0.5 master for fun). Just look at the speedup from the *very* recent merge of https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13412, wonderful stuff. Warts and rough edges are getting removed also, it just keeps getting better.
