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Julia uses LLVM for its jit architecture, if I recall correctly. That makes it a good candidate for running well on ARM platforms (think embedded data processi

by realo 2y ago

Julia uses LLVM for its jit architecture, if I recall correctly. That makes it a good candidate for running well on ARM platforms (think embedded data processing at the edge). Not sure how well fortran does on ARM.

pjmlp 2y ago
Fortran does quite well on almost any major CPU since 1950's, including GPUs. Actually one of the reasons CUDA won the hearts of researchers over OpenCL, is that Khronos never cared for Fortran, and even C++ was late to the party. I attended one Khronos webminar where the panel was puzzled with a question from the audience regarding Fortran support roadmap. NVidia is sponsoring the work on the LLVM Fortran frontend, so same applies. https://flang.llvm.org/docs/ https://flang.llvm.org/docs/
- pklausler 2y ago
  “sponsoring” in this case means writing nearly all of it ourselves (although we’ve had lots of help from Arm and some others on specific areas like OpenMP).
  - pjmlp 2y ago
    I see, I do follow LLVM conference talks, but not that deep.
leephillips 2y ago
And because it runs on arm (there are official arm binaries at julialang.org) you can run Julia on your phone: https://bsky.app/profile/badphysicist.bsky.social/post/3lhfmp3nnls2p https://bsky.app/profile/badphysicist.bsky.social/post/3lhfm...