> But measuring performance with timing a "hello world" program? Seriously? What scenario does the author have in mind that makes this particular benchmark even

> But measuring performance with timing a "hello world" program? Seriously? What scenario does the author have in mind that makes this particular benchmark even remotely relevant? If Julia is to replace Python in scientific computing, people will want to use it for short plotting scripts. Startup time matters there. That hello world is so slow is already telling. A plotting script needs tens of seconds just to load the Julia libraries.