There exists a tension between readability and speed. This is discussed briefly in Keeping track of simple vs high-performance versions - Usage / Performance - JuliaLang . Indeed, I often write two versions of a function, V1: Naive implementation. Since Julia is so expressive, this implementation…

Slow.jl: keep around a slow implementation of your functions

Henrique_Becker April 3, 2021, 6:28pm 8

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