I have received some queries from coworkers about Julia’s memory overhead. Members of our HPC team have expressed concern that Julia seems to eat about 160-200MB of RAM per Julia session (our current deployment model is to run many single-thread jobs on AWS nodes with relatively small RAM, and addit…

Julia memory overhead

tknopp February 5, 2017, 1:01pm 6

Quick and dirty splitting off BLAS should be doable by commenting things out.

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