I found this amusing and perhaps you will too… and maybe someone with Julia will make their mark. [Someone improved my code by 40,832,277,770%] (The scattergram does show a Julia competitor looking pretty good.)

I have searched a bit in the net, but was not lucky to find something related to Julia and this challenge. Is there somewhere a performance scattergram published that includes a Julia code?

I thought this video was interesting. The main theme of the video was just describing the “two-language problem”, but not in those words. It seems like someone did have a go in Julia, and did much better than the original implementations, but still fell short of the C/C++ speeds.

0.0068 sec. (the C++ code, I’m up to 5 min timestamp) is hard to beat in Julia, because Julia starts in 0.177 sec. for me (I’ve though cut startup in half with a sysimage; and you could time without startup or compilation). [EDIT: startup can be eliminated, see my comment further down.]

Would the benchmarking on our end include Julia startup time?

No, it’s just a predictable complaint people could have (e.g. insist on timing that way at Debian’s Benchmark game), while unfair.

@HexSpin , @ellocco , Isn’t this related (or same type of code? I’ve yet to watch the full video): Rust / Julia Comparison Post and Optimal Quordle Here’s Julia code that Parker linked to: [image] GitHub - palday/FiveLetterWorda.jl Contribute to palday/FiveLetterWorda.jl development by cr…

So under the videos there are a bunch of links; most of the benchmarking is done by Benjamin Paassen, here there is a spreadsheet of implementations he curates Five Words Implementations Implementations NOTE: THIS LIST MAY BE INCOMPLETE! IF YOU NOTICE MISSING ENTRIES OR MISTAKES, PLEASE …

Hmm, we’re beaten by Python (and JavaScript, Go and Haskell) on time, even Python is 16x faster, so I think we can do better. And intriguingly the smallest code is Python at 18 lines (Julia’s is 447), and even that code is also 10x faster than Julia. It’s also intriguing to compete on size (lines of…

The Julia code could easily be a ton faster. It is using Set{Char} so just switching to the bitmasked datastructure will be a massive improvement.

Perhaps - but I’m hardly qualified to comment. I’m what you might call a “Matt Parker kinda coder, but in Julia”.

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This change alone would also help:

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