Re: julia language

[Max Brister]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Levente Torok <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> Have you met with language Julia?
> The speed test is embarrassing:
> http://julialang.org/
> Can we do anything with the clever things in the considerations behind?
> It is released under MIT license.

As part of google summer of code I am working on JIT compilation for
Octave. This should address Octave's poor performance in these sorts
of benchmarks. While I am using the Julia code as reference material,
the code is not directly applicable to Octave. The Julia language is
quite different from Octave. For example, Julia uses pass by reference
instead of pass by value.

Max Brister