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Hello List, Probably many of you aware of the Julia language (http://julialang.org/), It is a promising project. However it seems like R is very slow in their benchmarks. Very important point they omit, they did not use R's own JIT ! I had a feeling that R is mistreaded there :) Also another important point is that they all use for-loops in R instead of vectorized code! Any thought on this? Are there any other improvement one can do with compiler package other then 'cmpfun'? Best, -m