Posted by SergeStinckwich on Nov 15, 2014; 5:53pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Julia-vs-Pharo-tp4790395.html

Hi all,

I find a recent paper about Julia that might be appealing for people
interested in doing scientific computation in Pharo (like the
SciSmalltalk community) : http://arxiv.org/pdf/1411.1607v1.pdf
"Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing"

Julia is a new dynamic programming language for scientific programming
with much higher performance than R or Python.

I found that some concepts are quite closed to Pharo in fact:

- meta-programming and code generation
- arbitrary precision integer
- JIT compiler (based on LLVM)
- call to C API

What is missing in Pharo at the moment:
- multiple dispatch
- arbitrary precision float
- dynamic dataflow type inference
- optional type annotations (maybe with pluggable type extensions for Pharo ?)
- special matrices types like spares or dense matrix, tri-diagonal, etc ...
- vectorization

Regards,
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