[Jprogramming] J on Julia benchmark

[Jo van Schalkwyk]

Hi All

I've been watching this thread with interest. Regarding where we waste
time, the other day I looked at an assessment of a large hospital system
(where things are almost notoriously a bit sluggish, and the information
management chaps are always fretting about efficiency, or lack thereof; we
won't even talk about their non-parameterised SQL queries) and to my
distress saw that over 50% of the expenditure of time is at parsing XML.
This is of course XML used in data transfer, and not in its original (and
sane) use as a means of formatting documents.
Jesus wept.

Jo.