Re: julia language

[Levente Torok]

Hi Max,

I see. So it means if I dont partition code into functions and pass
big data into it instead use global variables, it will resolve this
speed issue mostly?
What output you expect from JIT by the end of the supported period?

Lev

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:12 AM, Max Brister <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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