Regarding performance, I can only say that julia's primary use case doesn't really seem to be for small scripts that take a few msec to run. The last set of pr

Regarding performance, I can only say that julia's primary use case doesn't really seem to be for small scripts that take a few msec to run. The last set of programs I wrote in julia had run times of hours to days. A few extra seconds of startup time is well worth the 10x or better improvement over using python for the same tasks. The code was also tighter and easier to understand. A win all around.