[julia-users] Re: A Very Simple Benchmark for Brutal-force Loops in Several Languages: revised, Julia is fast!

[Ferran Mazzanti]

...but then is Julia *really* fast ? I guess that depends on what you 
compare with. I've been doing lots of numerics for the last 20+ years and 
for that I use fortran. This is *damn* fast, even more if you use something 
like the Intel compiler. Fortran many times performs better than C, and the 
benchmarks says that Julia is 1.6 times slower than C whichm froma  
performance point of view, is not a minor factor. So should I understand 
that Julia is about1.6-1.8 times slower than fortran? Then depending on 
what you call fast, Julia is fast :)