Re: [julia-users] Julia computational efficiency vs C vs Java vs Python vs Cython

2014-01-19 Thread Marcus Urban
It would really be helpful it the conversion rules, especially the ones that might effect performance, were stated more clearly. Alternatively, a debug-mode for the runtime or a separate ahead-of-time tool could be useful. Given that Julia is a bit of a moving target, I'm sometimes not clear

[julia-users] PolyExt.jl

2014-01-19 Thread Marcus Urban
If anyone is interested, I posted a Gist for polynomial division at https://gist.github.com/mathpup/8514578. The code using the existing polynomial module Polynomial.jl. My code includes a few utility functions and promotion rules. Since the division process repeatedly applies polynomial

Re: [julia-users] OT: entering Unicode characters

2014-01-17 Thread Marcus Urban
I'm not sure whether people are using canonicalize in the generic sense or if they mean canonical mappings as defined by the Unicode standard. Just to be clear, the initial issue raised about U+00B5 MICRO SIGN versus U+03BC GREEK SMALL LETTER MU would not be fixed by a canonical decomposition.

Re: [julia-users] OT: entering Unicode characters

2014-01-17 Thread Marcus Urban
Make that last link to the FAQ http://www.unicode.org/faq/normalization.html On Friday, January 17, 2014 11:34:44 PM UTC-6, Marcus Urban wrote: I'm not sure whether people are using canonicalize in the generic sense or if they mean canonical mappings as defined by the Unicode standard. Just

Re: [julia-users] Julia and Python languages

2014-01-10 Thread Marcus Urban
I have some concerns about how prefix-style method invocations, as in Java, would work with the existing structure of Julia. I am not trying to shoot down anyone's idea. I would just like to point out some issues. To be clear, the basic idea seems to be implicitly translating calls like

[julia-users] Building PDF Documentation For Julia

2014-01-07 Thread Marcus Urban
Building the PDF version of the documentation fails for me. Following the instructions in doc/README.md, make helpdb.jl and make html worked without error. However, make latexpdf fails with the error ! Package inputenc Error: Unicode char \u8:你 not set up for use with LaTeX. My LaTeX

[julia-users] Re: Style Guideline

2014-01-02 Thread Marcus Urban
Do people using Julia really like underscores that much? I find them generally unsightly, and I do not plan to use them.

[julia-users] Integer Division Native Code Emitted

2013-12-28 Thread Marcus Urban
I've noticed that the function div(a::Int, b::Int) results in a very large amount number of instructions, whereas rem(a::Int, b::Int) produces only a third as many. Is there an integer division function that emits code more like rem? Here are the results: # First rem() julia g(a::Int, b::Int)