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Julia High Performance

By : Avik Sengupta
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Julia High Performance

By: Avik Sengupta

Overview of this book

Julia is a high performance, high-level dynamic language designed to address the requirements of high-level numerical and scientific computing. Julia brings solutions to the complexities faced by developers while developing elegant and high performing code. Julia High Performance will take you on a journey to understand the performance characteristics of your Julia programs, and enables you to utilize the promise of near C levels of performance in Julia. You will learn to analyze and measure the performance of Julia code, understand how to avoid bottlenecks, and design your program for the highest possible performance. In this book, you will also see how Julia uses type information to achieve its performance goals, and how to use multuple dispatch to help the compiler to emit high performance machine code. Numbers and their arrays are obviously the key structures in scientific computing – you will see how Julia’s design makes them fast. The last chapter will give you a taste of Julia’s distributed computing capabilities.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Chapter 7. Beyond the Single Processor

Throughout this book, we discussed ways to make our code run faster and more efficiently. Using the suggestions in the previous chapters, your code now fully utilizes the processor without much overhead or wastage. However, if you still need your computation to finish even earlier, the only solution is distributing the computation over multiple cores, processors, and machines. In this chapter, we will briefly discuss some of the facilities available in Julia for distributed computing. A complete exposition of this topic is probably the subject of another large book—this chapter can only provide a few pointers for further information, such as:

  • Parallelism in Julia

  • Programming parallel tasks

  • Shared memory arrays