> For example, a trivial hello world program in Julia runs ~27x slower than Python’s version and ~187x slower than the one in C.
I don't think it makes any sense to speak of "__x slower" for hello-world. Clearly, this is just a benchmark of startup time, so you only pay it once per program. It should be reported as "__ms slower".
Julia startup (according to this post) takes 371ms. That's 357ms slower than Python, and 369ms slower than C. Faster is always better, but this doesn't seem so bad to me.
For comparison, on my old workstation here, starting a Swift repl takes 2724ms, and starting a Clojure repl takes 4792ms.
I don't think it makes any sense to speak of "__x slower" for hello-world. Clearly, this is just a benchmark of startup time, so you only pay it once per program. It should be reported as "__ms slower".
Julia startup (according to this post) takes 371ms. That's 357ms slower than Python, and 369ms slower than C. Faster is always better, but this doesn't seem so bad to me.
For comparison, on my old workstation here, starting a Swift repl takes 2724ms, and starting a Clojure repl takes 4792ms.