Julia has a strong point in being JIT-compiled language that incremental compilation works (it has to). Still, to take full advantage of that, saving state is required. Imagine you have a codebase which takes 20 minutes to compile, then the part you want to fix. Ideally, you would run the code for …

Save/load REPL state

Benny August 3, 2023, 7:50am 4

Old thread of mine on this topic.

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