Re:Some Insights from a Julia Developer
by flavio81 on Saturday October 14, 2017 @04:08PM
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Excellent use case.
>Without Julia, I would have had to find some other way to compile queries into machine code at run-time
Note that you could also do it in Common Lisp.
But I agree, Julia is very powerful, perhaps one of the most powerful recent languages.
Because the compiler's available at run-time, queries can be compiled into efficient kernels that can run in parallel over multi-gigabyte arrays orders of magnitude faster than MySQL or Postgres on the same hardware.
Without Julia, I would have had to find some other way to compile queries into machine code at run-time, which for me would have ruled out all the languages you listed. In practical terms I would have abandoned the project.