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They haven’t been all this time? Damn — what a time to be a robot

Why not a shared buffer? Serializing into JSON on this hot path should be entirely avoidable

Appreciate the comment actually! It's good feedback -- we weren't sure if it's mixing work/memes too much, and keeping our materials clean like engineering docs are probably a good…

It's open source / free. But yes, of course we want people to try it and get value from it.

Seeing in MATLAB code how ode45 is implemented != how the thing is running on the machine. That's a very small top slice. But okay -- as I mentioned, you're entitled to your views!…

Shameless plug for RunMat (we wrote this blog article, also an open source alternative for MATLAB): https://runmat.org

Yep -- Octave was very helpful for me in school. Octave is not particularly fast. RunMat is very fast (orders of magnitude -- see benchmarks).

>> The engine is closed source. You cannot see how fft or ode45 are implemented under the hood. For high-stakes engineering, not being able to audit your tools is a risk. This is j…

If the rewrite is for performance, ideally the logic capture = the thing executing in production. Cases where a JIT running would conflict with requirements notwithstanding (e.g. H…

Yep! Makes sense. Though I think the cost of writing these toolboxes is lim --> 0. Will have a really solid rust inspired package manager soon, and a single #macro to expose a rust…

In Julia, you explicitly need to still reason about and select GPU drivers + manage residency of tensors; in RunMat we abstract that away, and just do it for you. You just write ma…

@mNovak -- super helpful note! Thank you! Author of RunMat (this project) here -- > The first thing they teach about performant Matlab code is that simple for-loops will tank perfo…

Thanks!! It was originally for Octave users whose scripts were running painfully slow. The goal was to keep the MATLAB frontend capture syntax, but run it fast. When we dug into wh…

Hi, I’m Nabeel. In August I released RunMat as an open-source runtime for MATLAB code that was already much faster than GNU Octave on the workloads I tried. https://news.ycombinato…

a solid core, not the whole Matlab (they confound the language, compiler / runtime, an IDE, and a bunch of other things in the name / product that is MATLAB). This is a solid compi…

Versus Octave: - Lots of language semantics are unsupported in Octave (like Classes), and it’s purely a slow line by line interpreter so it’s very slow. - Given the design / Cranel…

Why build this? MATLAB wasn’t chosen by engineers; it was inherited from classrooms. That unfair advantage let MathWorks sell a decades-old runtime with heavy startup, sluggish hot…

Hi HN! Would love to share something that has been over a year in the making. We were originally building an environment to conduct engineering / scientific analysis in the cloud (…

Over the last two years, we’ve seen just how quickly science can move when it’s conducted out in the open, and the focus is on content rather than the publishing process. We’ve bui…