Check out this thread. There seems to be discussion on this matter already. Looks like the code used for these benchmarks was not well optimized for Julia and looks they are including Julia startup time and JIT compilation.
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/julia-users/4AgBccftrps/discussion and https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/14808#event-527206420 On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at 8:07:54 PM UTC-8, George wrote: > > I was surprised to se the results on the following benchmarks: > https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks > > Some benchmarks of different languages > <https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks#brainfuck>Brainfuck > > Brainfuck <https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/tree/master/brainfuck> > <https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks#benchb>bench.b > LanguageTime,sMemory, Mb > Nim Clang 3.21 0.7 > Felix 4.07 1.3 > Nim Gcc 4.52 0.6 > Java 4.94 147.6 > C++ 5.08 1.1 > Rust 5.46 4.9 > Scala 5.90 116.3 > D 6.57 1.0 > D Ldc 6.61 0.9 > Crystal 6.97 1.3 > Go 7.29 1.3 > Javascript Node 8.74 15.0 > D Gdc 8.87 1.0 > Julia 9.25 59.0 > Javascript V8 9.41 8.1 > Go Gcc 13.60 10.0 > Python Pypy 13.94 55.4 > Javascript Jx 17.14 11.0 > C# Mono 18.08 15.4 > OOC 48.86 1.3 > Ruby JRuby 87.05 124.1 > Ruby Topaz 112.91 36.0 > Ruby JRuby9K 160.15 297.2 > Ruby 226.86 8.0 > Tcl 262.20 2.7 > Python 452.44 4.9 > Ruby Rbx 472.08 45.0 > Python3 480.78 5.5 <https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks#mandelb>mandel.b > > Mandel in Brainfuck > <https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks/blob/master/brainfuck/mandel.b> > LanguageTime,sMemory, Mb > Nim Clang 28.96 1.0 > Felix 40.06 3.7 > D Ldc 43.30 0.9 > D 45.29 1.2 > Rust 46.34 4.9 > Crystal 48.62 1.3 > Nim Gcc 50.45 0.9 > Go 52.56 7.6 > Java 55.14 69.9 > Cpp 56.63 1.1 > Scala 64.37 126.4 > D Gdc 70.12 1.5 > Go Gcc 85.67 10.7 > Javascript Node 92.65 15.8 > Julia 94.33 56.9 > ...
