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Re:What's Great about Julia? by moonchild on Thursday December 08, 2022 @07:53AM (#33907344)
> And then the openlibm open source math library? Also made by the Julia developers

openlibm is just (yet another) msun repackage, isn't it?

Re:What's Great about Julia? by StefanKarpinski on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:01AM (#33907414)
It was cobbled together from msun and other sources to make a complete, portable, open source, liberally licensed libm, which—shockingly enough—did not exist in 2010 when we put it all together.
Re:What's Great about Julia? by teruakohatu on Friday December 09, 2022 @12:31AM (#33917862)
Thanks for all the hard work you and your colleagues put into Julia!