I’d like to use Julia to write some scripts for quick tasks that could be otherwise done with Bash, sed, etc. Is there a good way to precompile the script to make it start quickly? Is PackageCompiler.jl a good option, and if so, what’s a recommended way to use it?
I would first recommend you try your script while passing the -O0 --compile=min flags to Julia and check how the times change. If your script is more IO-bound than CPU-bound then this should be enough. If your script does a lot of computational effort, then DaemonMode can help you (the first run will be yet slow, but every other run will be faster). I would turn to PackageCompiler.jl as a last resort.
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See `jlpkg` -- a command line interface to Pkg for a very nice example
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