I mentioned to Prof. Edelman (only half jokingly) at an event in Singapore,
that we should add Excel/VBA to the list of benchmarks.
If I'm in a corporate setting and trying to sell Julia for some internal
project, the person making the call has probably never heard of any of the
languages in the Julia benchmark, but they have heard of Excel/VBA, so, as
silly as it may seem, I actually think it could go a long way for Julia
evangelists to see more comparisons to Excel/VBA.
On Monday, August 1, 2016 at 1:45:24 AM UTC+8, hustf wrote:
>
> It is nice to have a little check on speed from time to time. I still use
> VBA for easy cooperation with less programming savvy colleguaes.
>
> Julia 1.17s.
> VBA (excel alt + f11): 12 s.
>
> This is a bit unfair to neolithic man Joel Spolsky since no optimization
> was performed:
>
> Sub benchmark()
> nsamples = 1000000
> Dim y() As Double
> ReDim y(1 To nsamples)
> x = y
> For i = 1 To nsamples
> x(i) = (i - 1) * 5 / (nsamples - 1)
> Next
> Debug.Print ("\nBrutal-force loops, 100 times:")
> sngtime = Timer
> For m = 1 To 100
> For n = 1 To nsamples
> y(n) = Cos(2 * x(n) + 5)
> Next
> Next
> Debug.Print Timer - sngtime
> End Sub
>
>
