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Re:Romeo and Julia, Where Romeo Is Basic Statistics by the__alchemist on Friday March 15, 2024 @03:10PM (#39719553)
I'll give it a shot! I've been tracking a steady stream of published improvements this area over the years (decade?)

I think the most striking moment I had was when I realized through experiment that rust, which has a notoriously slow compiler, was faster to compile and run a small plotting program than Julia. That was ~5 years ago though!

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Re:Romeo and Julia, Where Romeo Is Basic Statistics by samatman on Friday March 15, 2024 @07:09PM (#39721630)
Entirely different language when it comes to compile times, they were tremendously successful in the time-to-first-plot project. 1.6 was the release in 2021 that made the biggest difference, but with steady improvement since.

The big push now is to add everything needed so that making object/dylib code in Julia of comparable size to the usual systems languages is possible. The team has a track record of finishing what they start, I'm optimistic that they'll get that right as well.

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