Hello List, Probably many of you aware of the Julia language (http://julialang.org/), It is a promising project. However it seems like R is very slow in their benchmarks. Very important point they omit, they did not use R's own JIT ! I had a feeling that R is mistreaded there :) Also another important point is that they all use for-loops in R instead of vectorized code! Any thought on this? Are there any other improvement one can do with compiler package other then 'cmpfun'? Best, -m
julia language unfair comparisons against R
2 messages · Suzen, Mehmet, R. Michael Weylandt
There been, that done. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9968578/speeding-up-julias-poorly-written-r-examples/10712158#10712158 MW
On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Suzen, Mehmet <msuzen at gmail.com> wrote:
Hello List, Probably many of you aware of the Julia language (http://julialang.org/), It is a promising project. However it seems like R is very slow in their benchmarks. Very important point they omit, they did not use R's own JIT ! I had a feeling that R is mistreaded there :) Also another important point is that they all use for-loops in R instead of vectorized code! Any thought on this? Are there any other improvement one can do with compiler package other then 'cmpfun'? Best, -m
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