I'm a little worried about some of those benchmarks. They appear to have benchmarked R from a few years back against 2011 Matlab, for instance. In addition, they provide no code used for the benchmarks. That being said, this looks really interesting, and I'm gonna bookmark it for when I have time to examine it properly (after the damn phd is finally submitted).
They do link to the code: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/test/perf . It doesn't look like a very reliable microbenchmark - run test x 5 times - but it should provide a useful starting point if you want to run your own.
Thanks guys, I'm not sure how I missed that. The benchmarks look interesting, but it is strange how old an R version they used. That being said, its a really interesting language, and I look forward to playing with it.
