On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 12:43:19AM +0900, Akira Yokosawa wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Have you heard of "Julia" language? > > JFYI, > As can be seen in its official page at https://julialang.org/ and a Wikipedia > article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_(programming_language), > it looks like one of promising answers to perfbook's Section 2.2 "Parallel > Programming Goals". > > As long as high-performance number crunching is concerned, it claims to have > comparable performance to C, with a programming productivity much better > than C + MPI. > > Note: I'm not a user of the language at the moment. I just heard of it at > a twitter hashtag #julialang. > > I'd like you to check it up and (hopefully) update the above mentioned > section in perfbook. I had heard of it, but I had not heard of it being seriously proposed as the answer to Section 2.2. I have added it to todo.txt with your Reported-by. Have you or has someone you know used this for a large parallel-programming project? (Just looking for some real-world confirmation.) Thanx, Paul -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe perfbook" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
