Comment by SZJX
8 years ago
Startup time has also been the biggest gripe I have with Julia so far. Otherwise it's a truly fantastic language to work in. I wasn't able to put the `__precompile__()` function to good use it seems - the time it takes to execute my program didn't change at all for some reason. Or maybe it's not actually the startup time that caused the problem, but the time it took to perform file IO. Anyways my program now takes even much longer time to startup than the Python equivalent (though it runs much faster once started), which is a real disappointment.
precompile doesn't store native compiled code. Though I know from talking to the compiler developers that this is high on the 1.x list. It's an annoyance but at least it has a clear solution in sight.