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Mastering Julia

Mastering Julia

By : Malcolm Sherrington
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Mastering Julia

Mastering Julia

4.4 (7)
By: Malcolm Sherrington

Overview of this book

Julia is a well-constructed programming language with fast execution speed, eliminating the classic problem of performing analysis in one language and translating it for performance into a second. This book will help you develop and enhance your programming skills in Julia to solve real-world automation challenges. This book starts off with a refresher on installing and running Julia on different platforms. Next, you will compare the different ways of working with Julia and explore Julia's key features in-depth by looking at design and build. You will see how data works using simple statistics and analytics, and discover Julia's speed, its real strength, which makes it particularly useful in highly intensive computing tasks and observe how Julia can cooperate with external processes in order to enhance graphics and data visualization. Finally, you will look into meta-programming and learn how it adds great power to the language and establish networking and distributed computing with Julia.
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Chapter 6. Scientific Programming

Julia was initially designed as a language directed to find solutions to the problems arising from science and mathematics. The current scripting languages then, and to some extent now, were slow especially when dealing with 'looping' code (devectorized) that is normally the algorithmic approach that the analyst will take in his/her blocked pseudo-coding.

This leads to the 'two-language' approach where analysis is made using the scripting language, whereas code needs to be compiled into a second language, usually C, in order to achieve enterprise performance.

Julia compiles its sources to the appropriate machine code using just-in-time compilation from LLVM and so achieves execution times comparable with those of C and Fortran.

It is natural that the applications of Julia in the fields of scientific programming are many and varied and in a single chapter I can do no more than point the reader to some of the more elemental examples...

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