At a conference presentation the other day a speaker made the claim that well-written Julia code was as fast as well-written C code while as expressive as Python, so it solved the two language problem.
My Python package uses a C extension for performance. That C extension uses AVX2 intrinsics. How well does Julia support intrinsics?
My Python package uses a C extension for performance. That C extension uses AVX2 intrinsics. How well does Julia support intrinsics?
Even supporting something like __builtin_popcountll() would be nice, but http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Population_count#Julia suggests that it's not supported in Julia.
I've no experience with Julia and my attempt at finding this out on my own failed - does anyone here know about Julia's support for intrinsics?