The two things I like about Julia are actually using it and all the smart people I have met who are also using it. It's awesome. After playing with this particu

The two things I like about Julia are actually using it and all the smart people I have met who are also using it. It's awesome. After playing with this particular problem a bit, I do see how it is a pathological case for R due to the recursive nature of the value function. I still think I could do better than 500x slower than C++.