Benchmark MATLAB & Julia for Matrix Operations

[ChrisRackauckas]

@RoyiAvital

Hopefully Multi Threaded Broadcasts + Loop Fusion will be in shortly.

Loop fusion is pretty close to being released:

0.6 release timeline

Another update: there are now only four feature changes remaining for 0.6 – the top four on https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/milestone/20. Of course, a couple of those are pretty major, e.g. the two issues constituting “the great type keyword rename”. Actual feature freeze is imminent.

As for multi-threading it, I just bumped the issue:

multi-threaded (@threads) dotcall/broadcast?