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Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well? by dklend122 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @08:29AM (#24847105)
There are several: https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/10/the-unreasonable-eff...

Also comes with some, but relatively light trade-offs for what's gained, IMO. The worst of trade-offs, compile overheads, are mostly not intrinsic to Julia and are being reduced every release and by packagecompiler.jl.

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Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well? by jakobnissen on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @08:32AM (#24847124)
Of course it's intrinsic to Julia. What do you mean? Julia is a JIT-compiled language, and so gets the curse of JIT-compilation: Compilation latency. That's unavoidable*

* Okay, technically, someone could write an interpreter for Julia, or do streaming compilation, but I wouldn't hold my breath for this to actually happen.

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Re:Why Does Julia Work So Well? by dklend122 on Wednesday October 21, 2020 @08:37AM (#24847166)
Julia already has an interpreter, and the core team has plans for tiered compilation.

Also the JIT compile time can be minimized to the point where it's a very minor thing. There's also smarter and slimmer static compile, which is also planned.

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