Re: Julia language

["Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

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