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At the Fortran Wiki http://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/Articles there are links to benchmarks comparing Fortran to Julia and other languages.

Looking at https://github.com/arturofburgos/Assessment-of-Programming-L... https://www.matecdev.com/posts/numpy-julia-fortran.html https://github.com/zyth0s/bench_density_gradient_wfn https://github.com/PIK-ICoNe/NetworkDynamicsBenchmarks

people do find Julia to be faster than Python/Numpy, but it is not uniformly faster than Fortran. And Julia's start-up time should not be ignored. Quoting the last link, "In fact the whole Fortran benchmark (300 integrations) finishes roughly in the time it takes to startup a Julia session and import all required libraries (Julia 1.5.1)."

parent Bostonian 5 years ago

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