> Node.js, Python, etc, except that OCaml is massively faster than those languages
The numerical benchmark table in http://julialang.org/ suggests that JavaScript is quite a number crunching beast, within 2x-3x of C performance.
The numerical benchmark table in http://julialang.org/ suggests that JavaScript is quite a number crunching beast, within 2x-3x of C performance.
From a purely numbers perspective, its operations on integers have to use the LEA instruction instead of ADD (for example) because of the 1-bit tag, which slows things down a bit, but the speed at dealing with symblic code as I explained above more than makes up for it.