JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 29cb6aeaf2782630847e823bad1281aeac5e05ac
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By StefanKarpinski:

Even if it's slow, I love how clean and simple this code is. If we can get this working at near C speeds, it would be a huge win in terms of allowing us to port more and more code to native Julia rather than calling out to C code. Maybe it should even be a benchmark?

Also, `const` really makes Julia feel like more of a "real" programming language somehow.