The native code caching in 1.9 is amazing, but as a package author its sometimes hard to navigate the precompile-time / run-time tradeoff and decide what to precompile. In my case if I precompile “pretty much everything one might need” it takes a pretty painful 5min (but then ofc TTFX is amazing). B…

Choosing what to precompile as a package author

tim.holy February 16, 2023, 4:34pm 4

Nothing wrong with using Preferences for this purpose. (Much better than an ENV variable.)

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