I’ve been working on a Julia package at work, call it Unicorns.jl. The package is currently in dev mode. Whenever I make changes to the source and then call using Unicorns (yes, I know about Revise.jl), it takes a very long time to pre-compile (> 30 seconds). Similarly, if I start up a fresh REPL se…

Not an expert here, but there is a lot to load. Maybe the compilation of your package is not slow, but loading everything is. In this case, there is not much you can do except from compiling a custom system image as described in PackageCompiler.jl .

I’m finding myself in the same situation. @CameronBieganek Did you find any workaround?

Very slow pre-compiling and `using`of custom Julia package

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ianfiske May 12, 2020, 4:12pm 4

I haven’t found a general solution for this, but some helpful tips are in [ANN] Turing 0.9.0 - #5 by cpfiffer.

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Very slow pre-compiling and `using`of custom Julia package

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