[joshuamorton]

>The specific purpose of the benchmark, though, is to compare implementations of the same algorithm natively in the language itself, as explained explicitly on the Julia website just under the table of benchmark results (see quote below).

But then they go and write their own sort instead of using the language provided ones when offered. All these show is that julia is apparently faster than incredibly unidiomatic python written by someone who clearly doesn't write python. Okay. That's neat.