[optimali]

It seems that though with in Julia, vectorized code is typically slower than non-vectorized, it is still faster than in R [1] / Python [2].

[1] http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/12/22/the-relati...

[2] http://blog.rawrjustin.com/blog/2014/03/18/julia-vs-python-m...