Yeah. I think the benchmark game entries for Julia are unfortunately poor / stylised - IIRC there was a fork that delivered actually fast implementations (at the cost of some prettiness), but I don't think it ever got merged in.

I do agree that there a few cases where Julia in theory could do what you wanted, but it's a bit awkward to get the guarantee from the compiler that it will do so (e.g. SIMD this thing, constexpr this thing..). I do hope this situation improves.