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Re:Julia 1.10 Released by ubj on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @09:35PM (#38789341)
For historical reasons I'm typically skeptical of claims that "TTFX" have improved. However, I just tried out Julia 1.10 and it is noticeably quicker than the last version I was using (1.8).

It takes some time to precompile packages, but once that's done I'm seeing the first plot pop up in fractions of a second.

Compliments to the Julia team! I'm looking forward to trying out this new version.

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Re:Julia 1.10 Released by bobbylarrybobby on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:07PM (#38789931)
I think v1.9 is where most of the magic happened there — packages gained the ability to list out their precompilation work during installation, which reduced compilation (and associated invalidations) at runtime.
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Re:Julia 1.10 Released by adgjlsfhk1 on Wednesday December 27, 2023 @11:30PM (#38790054)
1.10 had some substantial `using` time improvements (roughly 2-3x) from just hunting down lots of the slow parts in the compiler and fixing them.
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