Hi all! Pretty much the title question. I’d like to try Julia for my Master’s thesis (it’s my first time with it), and I too was annoyed by the initial package loading time, especially if I want to quickly try some code. Googling around, it seems like PackageCompiler’s sysimages are the way to go.…

precompile caches type inferred code, while create_sysimage caches machine code. The difference is that system images remove roughly 100% of loading time, but are not relocatable between machines, while precompile files are relocatable, but only remove some of the startup time.

What's the difference between `PackageCompiler.create_sysimage()` and `Pkg.precompile()`?

New to Julia

tfiers October 9, 2022, 6:12am 8

[edit: posted as standalone question]

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What's the difference between `PackageCompiler.create_sysimage()` and `Pkg.precompile()`?

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