Speaker
Stewart, Graeme
(CERN)
Description
The evaluation of new computing languages for a large community, like HEP, involves comparison of many aspects of the languages' behaviour, ecosystem and interactions with other languages. In this paper we compare a number of languages using a common, yet non-trivial, HEP algorithm: the tiled $N^2$ clustering algorithm used for jet finding. We compare specifically the algorithm implemented in Python, using numpy, Julia and Rust, with respect to the reference implementation in C++, from Fastjet. As well as the speed of the implementation we describe the ergonomics of the language for the coder, as well as the efforts required to achieve the best performance, which can directly impact on code readability and sustainability.
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Primary authors
Stewart, Graeme
(CERN)
Gras, Philippe
(IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)
Krasnopolski, Atell
(Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)
Hegner, Benedikt
(CERN)
