I tried to compare Python and Julia by letting them calculate the first 200000000 prime numbers. The result is dumbfounding.
Python: 95.91282963752747 seconds
Julia: 3.847882271

how the hell?

plot twist: Julia had them all hard coded

Kappa.

@ThatDude @irene I tried to optimize both codes as hard as possible.

Julia:
function calc_primes()
tic()
max::Int32 = 200000000
primes = ones(Bool, max)

for i::Int32 = 2:max
if primes[i]
j::Int32 = i * 2
while j < max
primes[j] = false
j += i
end
end
end

toc()

# Outside the timemeasure because it's not relevant
primeCount::Int32 = 0
for prime in primes[3:max] # because 0 & 1 are no prims
primeCount += prime
end

println("Amount: $max")
println("Number of primes: $primeCount") # To check whether the results are right
end

calc_primes()

Python:
from time import time

def calc_primes():
max = 200000000

time = time()
primes = [True] * max

for i in range(2, max):
if primes[i]:
j = i * 2
while j < max:
primes[j] = False
j += i

time = time() - time

primeCount = 0
for prime in primes[2:max]:
primeCount += prime

print("Time:", time)
print("Number of primes: ", primeCount)

calc_primes()

Btw, a friend of mine did the same in C and his best result was 3535.000000 ms

is Julia cute? 🤔

https://modelingguru.nasa.gov/docs/...

Might be interesting for this discussion. Python almost always is slower than Julia. At some points even very slow. It's "just" Matrix calculation, but anyway is interesting ^^

@DataSec Well, it was kinda expected. Julia was build for high performance and can proudly present itself next to C.

Like I mentioned in a previous comment, the performance was not that off from C, but tbh, I should have closed some running programs for a more accurate comparison

Your python code is weird and far from optimal, mate. You can probably halve that time by optimizing it.

Try comparing Julia with rust ...

@Awlex Yea you say it, it's the purpose of it. But measuring the performances of 2 languages is very hard, or generally the performance measurement of a language.