> _massive_ runtime ... 150MB of RAM, not to mention the dreaded startup-time. I understand how can this be inconvenient for me and you while scripting. But th

> _massive_ runtime ... 150MB of RAM, not to mention the dreaded startup-time. I understand how can this be inconvenient for me and you while scripting. But this is absolutely no problem for julia's currently main target market who runs multi-GB simulations. Also it is not like they will be spawning a julia instance in a hot loop (THAT would be horrible). You write some julia code, and import it using smth like pyjulia at the beginning of the file.