[mcabbott]

There is a discussion here:

https://discourse.julialang.org/t/rust-julia-comparison-post...

So far, a bug fix improves it 4700 min -> 150 min, changing the type stored -> 20 min, further optimisations -> 15 min.

[IshKebab]

Ha, the best way to optimise your code is to post about how another language can do it faster.