There is a well written section of Julia documentation providing comparisons to some of the other programming languages here: https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/noteworthy-differences What I am missing is comparison with what shell programming using bash and the command line applications comi…

ninjaaron/administrative-scripting-with-julia: Guide for writing shell scripts in Julia (github.com)

[image] sgaure: Why python has become so popular I do not fully understand. There’s many factors, market trends would have more to do with what libraries happened to catch on or what communities picked something up than anything to do with the base language. However the base language does hav…

hmm… this topic doesn’t seem to go anywhere useful…

[image] gdalle: Agreed. I set a timer for two more days, after which the topic will be closed automatically. Is this a way way to prevent getting interesting answers which might show clear advantage of using command line tools which arrive at results faster than Julia? ~ $ time maxima --very…

[image] oOosys: Is this a way way to prevent getting interesting answers which might show clear advantage of using command line tools which arrive at results faster than Julia? Your example here, which is mostly measuring the overhead of spawning julia for individual small calculations, has a…

[image] stevengj: Your example here, which is mostly measuring the overhead of spawning julia for individual small calculations, has already been extensively discussed in another thread: This is from my perspective a conclusion the commented post did not deserve, because it shows clearly the…

[image] oOosys: This is from my perspective a conclusion the commented post did not deserve, because it shows clearly the overhead making it possible to see the timing required by the calculation itself. Nope. Subtracting the times isn’t sufficient here, for one thing because there is a vari…

[image] stevengj: your approach isn’t how to do it. So why not provide the right approach showing the facts instead of criticizing a newbie for not being able to come up with what you mean would be better representative for measuring timing comparing Julia to Maxima?

The very first answer to your question proposed a simple approach, which doesn’t include startup time but still includes first compilation time: [image] How does Julia compare to shell scripting using bash and its "friends" like bc on a Linux system? New to Julia Performa…

bc isn’t faster on such big numbers … but seems to be faster on smaller ones. Direct comparison without startup times is hard up to impossible to do 100% correctly … Picking up one extreme example does not tell much about the overall performance … bc is only an example of a command line tool availab…

How does Julia compare to shell scripting using bash and its "friends" like bc on a Linux system?

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DanielVandH June 19, 2024, 5:14pm 34

This user Python big integer vs. Julia big integer arithmetic - #6 by sgaure already mentioned this quite early into your thread

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How does Julia compare to shell scripting using bash and its "friends" like bc on a Linux system?

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