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1000% this. Multiple times I’ve encountered a Julia benchmark claiming to show its superiority in a task I routinely perform. And every time the pro Julia bench

• neolog 5y ago
  I wonder if it's more common for that language than other languages. Probably not many people have enough expertise in many different languages to compare fairly across them.
• eigenspace 5y ago
  It's hard to say anything about your use-case without more information, but I will say that one thing is that the way people talk about julia often seems to give people a mistaken impression about how to attain it's performance claims. Namely, realizing these claims requires learning the language, and actually taking advantage of it's strengths rather than just writing 'python in julia'. It's very common for Python users to show up on the Discourse forum and complain that julia is slower than python and then show some code that's basically just Python code written in julia, including a huge proliferation of global variables, allocating huge amounts of temporary arrays, etc. There's also a huge spectrum of 'benchmark quality' out there. E.g. the benchmarks this HN post features seem pretty shitty and are not measuring anything interesting or useful as far as I can tell.