Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018)

Re:Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018) by attractivechaos on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:29PM (#24902745)

This sounds great in theory, but in practice julia-1.5.2 still takes 10 sec to start when I use a medium-sized package including its dependencies (16 compiled files in total). If julia is loading cached files, I would expect something below 1 sec.

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Re:Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018) by roywiggins on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:54PM (#24902986)

You can manually precompile a system image with libraries you find yourself using often, like Plots.jl. The usability of it stinks, but... you can do it, and it speeds common things up.

https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/examples/...

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Re:Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018) by ChrisRackauckas on Monday October 26, 2020 @08:35PM (#24903284)

Its usability is being integrated into the package manager so that it automatically gives warnings and triggers when you need to redo the sysimage. Not in v1.6, but there's been a lot of discussions for doing it shortly after. That is something I'm excited for.

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Re:Julia: Dynamism and Performance Reconciled by Design (2018) by attractivechaos on Monday October 26, 2020 @09:20PM (#24903582)

Thanks for the tip. This does look promising.

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