Thanks guys!  I still have a lot of work to do regarding writing tests and 
all, but one awesome thing is that for the most part, I am matching or 
beating the C++ timings for the examples I've created so far.

On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 11:24:09 PM UTC-5, Viral Shah wrote:
>
> You've already got a nice body of code there!
>
> -viral
>
> On Monday, February 29, 2016 at 10:02:16 PM UTC+5:30, Christopher 
> Alexander wrote:
>>
>> Hello all, I'd like to point people in the direction of a package I've 
>> been working on: JQuantLib, to get some feedback.  Basically, I am trying 
>> to write a version of the very popular open-source quantitative finance 
>> library QuantLib in pure Julia.  The library itself is written in C++, but 
>> it is commonly used in Python (via SWIG).  I thought this would be a first 
>> attempt at trying to solve a common problem in many financial firms where 
>> you have basically two different dev environments: a calculation-heavy one 
>> (where speed is important) in C++, C, etc and one that is increasingly in 
>> Python to provide an abstraction to that lower level.  Julia seems to be a 
>> perfect fit for eliminating the myriad issues one can encounter with this 
>> bifurcated dev setup.
>>
>> The package itself is located here: https://github.com/pazzo83/JQuantLib
>>
>> There is a bond pricing (NPV) example in the readme itself, and further 
>> examples in the examples folder (these are under development still).  I am 
>> continuing to work on this and add to it, but I'd love some feedback!  I'm 
>> still relatively new to Julia, but working on this has definitely improved 
>> my fluency of the language.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Chris
>>
>

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