Julia: Fast as Fortran, Beautiful as Python

@certik,

As was shown in your other thread, there is much that can be questioned about such comparisons.

Ok so the previous thread established Julia implementation has somewhat faster trig functions compared to readily-accessible Fortran implementations such as gfortran currently and there are some macros with Julia developed by highly zealous enthusiasts that enable convenient non-sequential calculations (vectorized/threaded/parallel, etc.) but these are hardly aspects of the language itself, especially Fortran.

Thus, not only do the comparisons posted at GitHub by “mdmaas” appear entirely amateurish technically (who in their right mind posts benchmarks of Fortran function evaluation using a NumPy driver!) they have all the subtle elements of bias that can lead to pointless “language wars”.

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