There is one aspect you did not mention in this efficiency discussion: more efficient solutions often use faster (better?) algorithms which reach further. But they (also often) take an extra ordinarily amount of programmers time.
For the rest I agree, the total time should be taken into account. R.E. Boss > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Devon > McCormick > Verzonden: woensdag 8 mei 2013 20:25 > Aan: J-programming forum > Onderwerp: Re: [Jprogramming] J on Julia benchmark > > I suppose it's not too late to toss in my usual plea to stop playing this > game - > http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/NYCJUG/2007-04-10#Reframing_the_Efficiency_Discussion. > > Also, we discussed Julia briefly at the last NYCJUG - I'd been to a Meetup > at which the language was promoted by some of its creators. It looked to > be a mashup of R and Matlab. I was tempted to ask how it was at > array-handling but was pretty sure I already knew the answer: crappy, but > we don't even know it because we just copied what's been done before. > > The thing that most impressed me about the presentation before I walked out > on it was the timing comparisons of Julia to some other languages: it > looked like JavaScript was better than just about all of them for many of > their benchmarks. > > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Raul Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:45 PM, William Tanksley, Jr > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If you want the benefit of BLAS performance, you're stuck with BLAS' > > > optimizations. > > > > BLAS is free software: it is legal to modify it and to distribute it > > in changed form. > > > > Though I agree that [hypothetically speaking] it may be the case that > > some changes would slow it down. > > > > -- > > Raul > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > > > > > -- > Devon McCormick, CFA > ^me^ at acm. > org is my > preferred e-mail > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
