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Making Julia as Fast as C++ (2019)

16 points • by d_tr • last Wednesday at 9:36 PM • 3 comments • view on HN

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StilesCrisis • today at 11:38 AM

Punchline: rewrote the code to look almost identical to C++, hand-held the compiler by adding @-marks to disable safety checks, forced SIMD codegen and fastmath on.

End result: code that is uglier and still much slower than C++. Kind of a shame.

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ForceBru • today at 11:00 AM

Recent discussion on Julia Discourse: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/making-julia-as-fast-as-c/

slwvx • last Wednesday at 10:57 PM

From 2019