Others will know a lot more about this, but caching of already compiled Julia code is a very large issue. It may be safe to say it is the largest current issue for the language now that a new GC has been merged into 0.4. So this is to say that you aren't alone in long start up times for Julia.
On Monday, January 26, 2015 at 11:31:32 AM UTC-6, Jan Niklas Hasse wrote: > > Hi! > > I've just tried the Match.jl package and it works just as expected. But > now my program needs 10 extra seconds to start, even if the code using the > @match macro is untouched. Is there anyway to cache the generated code? > > If I understand the docs correctly this only works if I move the code > using the macro into its own module. Is this correct? >
