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anonimnystefy

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New PL in town?

I have just found about this new programming language called Julia which is supposedly faster than many of currently popular PLs, including Python, Matlab, Octave, R and JS when it comes to mathematical and numerical computation.
From what I see it is procedural, though.

I haven't had time to check it out much yet, but anyone who is willing to do so, its webpage is http://julialang.org/

Last edited by anonimnystefy (2013-05-06 12:13:35)

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gAr

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Re: New PL in town?

Compilation of julia did not work for me, so I can't check.
Anyway, I believe it was not benchmarked against NumPy, Cython etc., which would be much faster.

edit: saw that it was benchmarked against NumPy..

Last edited by gAr (2013-05-06 21:24:41)

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anonimnystefy

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Re: New PL in town?

Well, only the last two functions are in NumPy.

What is exactly NumPy used for, if I may ask, because, although I heard about it, I never knew its purpose. How is it different from regular Python?

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gAr

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Re: New PL in town?

Using NumPy, we can use arrays much like in matlab.
We need not write lines of code to multiply matrices. So, it will be much faster since built-in functions are optimized.
It also provides many functions for scientific computing.

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anonimnystefy

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Re: New PL in town?

Oh, ok. So, basically, it is better for numerical computation than regular Python?

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gAr

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Re: New PL in town?

Yes..

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anonimnystefy

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Re: New PL in town?

How well do you know Python and NumPy?

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gAr

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Re: New PL in town?

Well enough to suit my needs!

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