The Julia Language Docs have a great page on performance tips.  It's worth a read, but the writing is aimed more towards a computer scientist than a data scientist. Here we'll cover some easy performance wins. We find the best way to code in Julia is to:... (more…)

Summary This PR parallelizes the GC mark-loop by introducing GC threads into the Julia runtime and by implementing work-stealing to dynamically balance the amount of work each thread performs in th... (more…)

using DataFrames, DataFramesMeta using BenchmarkTools using Plots... (more…)

Question: I read a lot on the Internet about this programming language called Julia being very fast, but I’m very skeptic. What do you say? Answer: It’s good to be skeptic, but you can try yourself! Q: Some time ago I actually tried and I found it to be v... (more…)

  Written in the productivity language Julia, the Celeste project—which aims to catalogue all of the telescope data for the stars and galaxies in in t... (more…)