Fast.ai and why Python is not the future of ML with Jeremy Howard

Re:Fast.ai and why Python is not the future of ML with Jerem... by TheRealKing on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:45PM (#24412243)

This will not happen. There is so much hype around Julia and false claims such as Julia outperforming Fortran, etc. One can always design an isolated benchmark in which Julia outperforms any other language. But what people care, is performance in practice. And false claims will only hurt Julia in the long run, in the same way VolksWagen got badly hurt for its "US diesel emission fraud".

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Re:Fast.ai and why Python is not the future of ML with Jerem... by m_mueller on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @05:39AM (#24419165)

It's a compiled language with a close-to-baremetal type system and implemented as an LLVM frontend. I don't see what would make it slower than e.g. Fortran except for a couple more years of LLVM backend optimizations required (which I still think will happen given LLVM's adoption), but probably I'm missing something here.

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Re:Fast.ai and why Python is not the future of ML with Jerem... by amkkma on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:17PM (#24413507)

And do you have any evidence that well written (but still high level) Julia isn't faster/as fast as fortran in practice?

Poorly written code in any language will be slow, so don't start with that.

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