I'm sorry if you read any snark into my tone, none was intended.
This paragraph made me think you saw a conflict with the two approaches: "Reading between the lines, devectorize.jl and the vectorization framework will make for a heady mix. I am glad that Julia is challenging the traditional mantra of "vectorize (as in the R/Numpy/Matlab sense) the loops". It is heart warming to see that the language designers get it that this style has inherent speed limitations (time is spent filling and copying temporary vectors)."
The difficulty, I think, is what you identified. I was thinking of the classic compiler optimization called "vectorizing".
This paragraph made me think you saw a conflict with the two approaches: "Reading between the lines, devectorize.jl and the vectorization framework will make for a heady mix. I am glad that Julia is challenging the traditional mantra of "vectorize (as in the R/Numpy/Matlab sense) the loops". It is heart warming to see that the language designers get it that this style has inherent speed limitations (time is spent filling and copying temporary vectors)."
The difficulty, I think, is what you identified. I was thinking of the classic compiler optimization called "vectorizing".