Julia and performance

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Overview

Questions

  • How can Julia be so much faster than Python?
  • I can’t say Julia is slow, but why is it so sluggish?
  • How can I reason about performance?

Objectives

  • Understand the strategy of JIT compilation.

Key Points

  • The Julia compiler compiles a function once its called with a specific type signature.