Julia High Performance: Optimizations, distributed computing, multithreading, and GPU programming with Julia 1.0 and beyond, 2nd Edition

I felt like I needed to write a review to offset the other 1 star review. I think that the book is great. Unlike a generic computer science textbook, this focuses specifically on how and why Julia is fast - and what to do and not to do in order to make your Julia code speedy. This was the first Julia book that I bought and I got a lot of value out of reading it.

This book provides plenty of examples to demonstrate how good performance can be coaxed out of Julia. It clarified many of the fundamental questions that I had on writing Julia code which most other introductory tutorials on Julia found online glazed over.

This book is nothing more than a beginners guide in Julia, combined with the section from the Julia documentation about performance tweaks. It is bad-written and has typos (many typos). There seems to be no lectorate at Packt. Instead of this book, you should better get a formal computer science book about high performance programming independent of language, then you know what your computer does and why it helps to speed the program up. Julia is insightful enough to apply this concepts. I would have hoped that this book would go over more more topics and some background and not just copy the section from the documentation about performant programming in Julia, but it does not. I would advice against buying it.