A Basic Benchmark Comparison of Perl and Julia
#How To Run The Test To run the benchmark yourself, simply clone the github repo onto your computer, move into that directory, and type the following:
bash benchmark.sh
Results suggest Perl is faster than Julia for processing fasta files (calculating median length).
#How To Get The Data Uncompress the files using this line
cat largeseqtest.fa.gz_* | gunzip -c > largeseqtest.fa