First impression of Julia 1.14-alpha

General Usage
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Comparing the load times of MTK I get:

  • 4.0s with Julia 1.13.2
  • 3.17s with Julia 1.14+opt

This is a 21% improvement.

The time-to-first-plot (TTFP) with MakieControlPlots shows an even larger improvement:

Julia 1.13.2:

julia> @time @eval (using MakieControlPlots; plotx([1,2,3], rand(3)))
  3.389415 seconds (6.05 M allocations: 381.920 MiB, 13.21% gc time, 15.29% compilation time)

Julia 1.14+opt:

julia> @time @eval (using MakieControlPlots; plotx([1,2,3], rand(3)))
  2.426261 seconds (3.49 M allocations: 286.406 MiB, 14.88% gc time, 9.39% compilation time)

This is a 29% improvement.

Congrats to the developers! :slight_smile:

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Big shout out to @ianshmean and @kristoffer.carlsson, who have been doing a lot of great work on TTFX.