What can we do to make Julia grow fast?

[mauro3]

This just came up, maybe of relevance to this thread:

Halite II Competition

I would like to bring your attention to Halite II competition being held by TwoSigma: https://halite.io/ From the site: “Halite is an open source artificial intelligence programming challenge, created by Two Sigma, where players build bots using the coding language of their choice to battle on a two-dimensional virtual board.” Yesterday Starter Kit for Julia has been added to repository: https://github.com/HaliteChallenge/Halite-II/tree/master/airesources/Julia so anyone interested can join. …