How to precompile all modules?

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Hello.

How can I precompile all modules in Julia from my first session instead of waiting for a while everytime Julia uses a new module?

Is there any fast way to install all Julia available packages or the most common ones without going one per one? Maybe a bunch of common useful packages.

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I have this function in my .juliarc:

"Precompile all packages"
function precompile_pkgs end
try
    @eval using ProgressMeter
    @eval function precompile_pkgs()
        @showprogress for pkg in collect(keys(Pkg.installed()))
            if !isdefined(Symbol(pkg))
                info("Importing $(pkg)...")
                try (@eval import $(Symbol(pkg))) catch end
            end
        end
    end
catch
    function precompile_pkgs()
        for pkg in collect(keys(Pkg.installed()))
            if !isdefined(Symbol(pkg))
                info("Importing $(pkg)...")
                try (@eval import $(Symbol(pkg))) catch end
            end
        end
    end
end

which I got from https://groups.google.com/d/msg/julia-users/N2let47lvSY/CNnlWFfhAwAJ
Then run precompile_pkgs() after a Pkg.update().

I think JuliaPro bundles some packages. But anyway, just install the ones you need.

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I expected to see a single command :slight_smile:
Thank you very much.

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Arguably it should be automatic:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16409

5

This is so helpful! Thanks

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One modification that makes it work here, is that the command doesn’t seemed to hang up on Compat.jl.

So I modified the loop to exclude Compat, as below:

    function precompile_pkgs()
        for pkg in collect(keys(Pkg.installed()))
            if !isdefined(Symbol(pkg)) && pkg != "Compat.jl"
                info("Importing $(pkg)...")
                try (@eval import $(Symbol(pkg))) catch end
            end
        end
    end

Also that bit with ProgressMeter doesn’t work, so at some point I’ll just remove that cleverness. But the function does indeed make everything precompile.

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