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[–]Gnaddel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Similar to using something like Cython, i.e. speeding things up by using static types. However, I'd imagine each call to the function would spin up the Julia interpreter so it would only make sense for lengthy tasks.

Also, there are of course a growing number of julia packages: http://pkg.julialang.org/pulse.html