He did take out the start-up time. but I agree. If you complain that compile takes 11 seconds when the program runs in 30, then I wonder if that's really the u

He did take out the start-up time. but I agree. If you complain that compile takes 11 seconds when the program runs in 30, then I wonder if that's really the use-case where you need every last bit of performance. Now, on a program that runs for two days straight in Python or Matlab, and Julia reduces that time by half, I can deal with a bit of compile time.