llvm dev - Mar 2012 - [LLVMdev] Introducing julia, and gauging interest in a julia BOF session at the upcoming LLVM conference in London

Folks,

We are contemplating holding a Birds of a Feather session titled "Julia and
LLVM: Implementing a fast dynamic language for technical computing" at the
LLVM 2012 European Conference on April 12-13 in London.

http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/

Would this be of interest to the LLVM developer and user community? It would be
great if you could drop me a line.  It will help us gauge the interest and
decide if we should hold the session or not.

A little bit about julia:

Julia is an open source language for technical computing that strives to be in
the same class of productivity as Matlab, R, python+numpy, etc., but targets the
performance of C and Fortran. It is due to LLVM that julia has been able to
achieve such good performance (in my opinion), with relatively little effort in
a short amount of time. While we have not been active on the LLVM mailing list,
we look forward to every new release, and the goodies it brings. We are really
looking forward to integrating polly, GPU, autovectorization capabilities, etc.
Julia has been in development by a core group consisting of our compiler writer
Jeff Bezanson, with Stefan Karpinski and myself contributing the runtime and
libraries, and Prof. Alan Edelman focussing on numerical accuracy. We do look
forward to meeting with all the folks behind LLVM and the community at large.

Julia was quietly announced in the release notes of LLVM 3.0. It was officially
announced only recently in a blog post on Feb 14, 2012. Our "Why
Julia" blog post links to various blogs and discussion forums:
http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/

The github site for julia development has also attracted a number of developers
and we are hoping that this is the start of a great community:
https://github.com/juliaLang/julia/

Do hop on to our website, where we show some simple micro-benchmarks comparing
julia to other languages:
http://www.julialang.org/


Thanks,

-viral

Hi Viral,

  I skim through the article talking about why you guys creat Julia [1], very
ambitious object, I must say. :) Anyway, I notice there is link to a Chinese
tranlation on [1]. Actually, it's a Simplified Chinese tranlation. I have
written a Traditional Chinese tranlation for Julia. Would you mind to put
the link [2] on the page for me?

  Thanks! :)
 
Regards,
chenwj

[1] http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
[2] http://www.hellogcc.org/archives/666

-- 
Wei-Ren Chen (陳韋任)
Computer Systems Lab, Institute of Information Science,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel:886-2-2788-3799 #1667
Homepage: http://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~chenwj

On 03/08/2012 02:04 PM, Viral Shah wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We are contemplating holding a Birds of a Feather session titled
"Julia and LLVM: Implementing a fast dynamic language for technical
computing" at the LLVM 2012 European Conference on April 12-13 in London.
>
> http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/
>
> Would this be of interest to the LLVM developer and user community? It
would be great if you could drop me a line.  It will help us gauge the interest
and decide if we should hold the session or not.
Sure. Sounds interesting to me.

Tobi

Dear Viral,

Would you like Julia listed on the LLVM User's page 
(http://llvm.org/Users.html)?  If so, please email me an appropriate 
description, and I'll add it.

On a related note, if someone asked for an entry to be added and it 
hasn't yet, please feel free to remind me.
:)

-- John T.