Re:Automatic Differentiation with Julia
by currymj on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:26AM
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surprisingly yes, it really is. Julia is smart about type inference, so it compiles a specialized version of a function as needed for whatever argument types actually get used.
the catch is, the first time you run a function there is often a noticeable compile time. but it’s cached after that.
other problems with Julia include a somewhat immature/unfinished set of libraries, in part because the language was constantly changing underneath people.
but now that 1.0 has been released, the language will be stable for a long time and you can expect that to improve quickly.
good language! it gets a lot of hype on HN but that’s because it is actually very nice.
the catch is, the first time you run a function there is often a noticeable compile time. but it’s cached after that.
other problems with Julia include a somewhat immature/unfinished set of libraries, in part because the language was constantly changing underneath people.
but now that 1.0 has been released, the language will be stable for a long time and you can expect that to improve quickly.
good language! it gets a lot of hype on HN but that’s because it is actually very nice.