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 wil…

How to write scripts with quick startup time (PackageCompiler.jl?)

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tim.holy January 25, 2021, 6:05pm 3

See `jlpkg` -- a command line interface to Pkg for a very nice example

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How to write scripts with quick startup time (PackageCompiler.jl?)

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