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APL at Julia's Speed | Shashi Gowda | JuliaCon 2016

The Julia Programming Language · talk · Watch on YouTube

Compilers, interpreters & program analysisPython, Ruby & scripting languagesFunctional programming

What it is

A JuliaCon 2016 talk by Shashi Gowda showing an APL implementation in Julia. APL code is translated to Julia and JIT compiled to machine code.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited in APL and Julia threads as a neat way to run APL-style syntax at Julia's speed.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2019

What HN commenters said

  1. “I thought it was a pretty neat way to run APL.”

    APL code translated to Julia and JIT compiled to machine code

    newen, 2018-01 · Recommendation · in “Compiling a Subset of APL into a Typed Intermediate Language (2014) [pdf]”

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Topics: apl, julia, jit compilation, juliacon, array programming

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