We could have radically smaller Julia; at least 177 MB smaller (even more so with UPX compression), e.g. compiled Julia binary executables, if we want to, by a) dropping stuff and b) compressing the rest more. A lot of what I describe can be done in 1.x without breaking any compatibility, the rest w…

@Palli , would you know why Julia dlls in the bin folder and the sys.dll are not compressed with upx or other tools like “strip”? Would you also know why LinearAlgebra has not been removed from the sysimage now that it has been moved to its own repo? Thanks.

My UPX experiment wasn’t too successful, if I recall, so I didn’t suggest using it for Julia (even better then compressing is just eliminating). I forget the details, they’re likely here in the thread. If it had helped, or if you I’m wrong, and you get it to work, then please make a PR. I don’t know…

That’s all highly speculative. One concrete path forward here is the upcoming v1.12’s --trim .

I manage to remove LinearAlgebra from the sysimage. It reduces the size of the julia installation folder and seems to improve the startup time. LinearAlgebra can still be used as normal, so I am not sure why it has not been removed from the sysimage yet? Regarding upx, it did not work for me on win…

[image] gitboy16: so I am not sure why it has not been removed from the sysimage yet? I think Piracy in the StdLibs · Issue #30945 · JuliaLang/julia · GitHub is a good tl;dr

And if you delete all *_T3QLl.dll from share\julia\compiled\v1.13 like I mentioned in Julia installation file sizes - #10 by gitboy16 , you shave another ~190 Mb. Also, apparently without any negative effect.

[image] Palli: https://github.com/Genivia/RE-flex is a much faster regex engine, so if someone wants to experiment getting it to work, then at some point it could replace PCRE2, or as a first step add it through a package, then PCRE2 can be dropped by default (with a possibility to enable it for…

I am clearly not in the right league to comment on the technical aspects in this thread, but I feel like the perspective of an average (or below average!) user is missing. Please, do not turn Julia into another Python, where basic mathematical functions require importing additional packages (yes, th…

[image] jojob68: For instance, I already find it odd and somewhat frustrating that I have to use using Statistics just to access the mean function. Maybe that’s just me, maybe not… I echo this. I encounter this issue daily! Every time I start a new script/notebook, I forgot to import Statisti…

I go back and forth on this all the time. Like, yes having an R like statistical standard library would make the transfer to Julia super easy. But also there is a lot to be said about trimming the fat and keeping statistics out of the environment unless they are needed. My main piece of advice on th…

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