But it's an entirely 100% meaningless point of discussion though.
My peers and I use Julia to run numerical heavy code where the large majority of the time is spent inverting a large matrix to solve the equation Ax = b for x. It's a lot more complicated than this, but essentially it can be boiled down to this main equation. When my code takes hours, pushing onto days, to run, why should I care about 300 ms of startup time at all?
I stopped reading the article because their first point (the hello world benchmark) is entirely meaningless and is just noise in the wind. Their second point is a matter of personal opinion. After these two I didn't bother reading the rest.
My peers and I use Julia to run numerical heavy code where the large majority of the time is spent inverting a large matrix to solve the equation Ax = b for x. It's a lot more complicated than this, but essentially it can be boiled down to this main equation. When my code takes hours, pushing onto days, to run, why should I care about 300 ms of startup time at all?
I stopped reading the article because their first point (the hello world benchmark) is entirely meaningless and is just noise in the wind. Their second point is a matter of personal opinion. After these two I didn't bother reading the rest.