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Has anyone tried a large-ish application? What's the startup time like? I'm a little concerned because it seems to be doing a fully optimizing recompile on eve

Has anyone tried a large-ish application? What's the startup time like? I'm a little concerned because it seems to be doing a fully optimizing recompile on every invocation.

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andrewcooke 13y ago
it's a JIT, so it's progressive compilation in some sense. BUT i certainly noticed that it seemed slower than python when starting a program. not java slow, but not instant.
ihnorton 13y ago
I think Julia is the largest application of itself at the moment - the majority of functionality is written in the language itself. The time-to-repl is 2-4s depending on your os and setup. Taking package loading time in to account, it can be an issue, but there is a plan (and code) to address this soon.
- marshray 13y ago
  Is the 2-4s for non-REPL ordinary scripts too?
  - ihnorton 13y ago
    Yes. There is a patch which provides static compilation support for the system image and should eliminate the startup time. However, the changes from 0.1 have been enormous already, so this will not be merged until 0.2 is tagged.
    - marshray 13y ago
      Awesome!