Guest Lectures on Performance: Valentin Churavy and Jameson Nash

Fellow Julians in the Cambridge area for discussing topics of any interest within the broad community. Please see our Papercall https://www.papercall.io/cajun and submit your talk ideas for future events!

Talk 1: What makes Julia fast?

by Valentin Churavy (CSAIL PhD Student at MIT)

I will explore how it is possible for a dynamic language to be fast and to how Julia is making use of LLVM! We will focus on interacting with the compiler infrastructure.

Talk 2: Profile Tools for faster code

by Jameson Nash (Julia Computing, Inc)

Profiling tools are awesome. They let us see what actually is affecting our program performance. Profiling tools are terrible. They lie to us and give us confusing information. Let's explore them and see what they can teach us about our design assumptions.

How to get here

The Kiva Conference room is on the 4th floor of the Dreyfoos Wing in the Stata Center (Building 32). Enter Building 32 at the front entrance and proceed straight ahead; there will be elevators to the right. Take the elevators to the 4th floor; exit to the left and then turn right at the end of the elevator bank. At the end of the short corridor cross the R&D Dining room. The Kiva Conference Room is to the right.

If you are visiting from outside MIT, please note that the doors lock promptly at 6pm. We will have someone by the Dreyfoos elevators to help folks find their way up.

About us

C.A.J.U.N is dedicated to users and developers of the Julia language. Please see our Papercall https://www.papercall.io/cajun and submit your talk ideas for future events!