For some reason, my brain forgot you did this on KNL. I guess even with cross compilation and then passing it to the platform compilers and it performing well is a sign it's good. Anyway, it's great you guys got this through especially with a tool like Julia. At least in my corner of academia, people utilizing "untested tools" unnecessarily raises the ire and skepticism of peers (for rather stupid reasons). I appreciate you guys "making the first move" which makes it easier for the rest of us looking to branch out and use these tools for our own codes.