We argue that the Julia programming language is a compelling alternative to implementations in Python and C++ for common data analysis workflows in high energy physics. We compare the speed of implementations of different workflows in Julia with those in Python and C++. Our studies show that the Julia implementations are competitive for tasks that are dominated by computational load rather than data access. For work that is dominated by data access, we demonstrate an application with concurrent file reading and parallel data processing.
@article{arxiv.2003.11952,
title = {Performance of Julia for High Energy Physics Analyses},
author = {Marcel Stanitzki and Jan Strube},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.11952},
year = {2021}
}