November 2017
Beginner
316 pages
6h 40m
English
Content preview from Learning Julia
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Benchmarks
We mentioned the speed of Julia above, and that's what sets this language apart from traditional dynamically typed languages. Speed is its specialty. So, how fast can Julia be? The following micro-benchmark results were obtained on a single core (serial execution) on an Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E7-8850 2.00 GHz CPU with 1 TB of 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM running Linux:
| Julia 0.4.0 | Python 3.4.3 | R 3.2.2 | MATLAB R2015b | Go go1.5 | Java 1.8.0_45 | |
| fib | 2.11 | 77.76 | 533.52 | 26.89 | 1.86 | 1.21 |
| parse_int | 1.45 | 17.02 | 45.73 | 802.52 | 1.20 | 3.35 |
| quicksort | 1.15 | 32.89 | 264.54 | 4.92 | 1.29 | 2.60 |
| mandel | 0.79 | 15.32 | 53.16 | 7.58 | 1.11 | 1.35 |
| pi_sum | 1.00 | 21.99 | 9.56 | 1.00 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| rand_mat_stat | 1.66 | 17.93 | 14.56 | 14.52 | 2.96 | 3.92 |
| rand_mat_mul | 1.02 | 1.14 | 1.57 | 1.12 | 1.42 |
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.