From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:50712 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162171AbdKRTTQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:19:16 -0500 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098420.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.21/8.16.0.21) with SMTP id vAIJJ4KS021820 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:19:16 -0500 Received: from e17.ny.us.ibm.com (e17.ny.us.ibm.com [129.33.205.207]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2eahxatxv2-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:19:15 -0500 Received: from localhost by e17.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:19:15 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2017 11:19:13 -0800 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: Julia language Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <31ffe8fa-8787-7554-ce37-285cb0961a26@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31ffe8fa-8787-7554-ce37-285cb0961a26@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20171118191913.GJ3624@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: perfbook-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Akira Yokosawa Cc: perfbook@vger.kernel.org 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