reimplementation in julia #2

matlab is a great tool for writing code quickly, but matlab also has many drawbacks. For example, I don't have a matlab license.

Octave is fine but doesn't have support for parallel-computing, which is necessary for acceptable performance. Also Matlab is fairly slow, and Octave is even slower + less stable. I haven't measured Octaves speed in comparison to Matlab, but tests indicate that a near-straight julia port would run 50x faster (single threaded) than the equivalent Octave code.

The drawbacks with julia include

• more verbose than Matlab
• less intuitive for debugging
• worse documentation compared to Octave and especially Matlab

however the speed of julia is hard to beat