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0 pointsdan-robertson5y ago0 comments

I wonder how much Julia could be helped with some uneval/image-saving magic. So when you run the repl you instead get a pre-built binary with plot already loaded and several common specialisations already compiled.

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staticfloat5y ago

We call these "system images" and you can generate them with PackageCompiler [0]. Unfortunately, it's still a little cumbersome to create them, but this is something that we're improving from release to release. One possible future is where an environment can be "baked", such that when you start Julia pointing to that environment (via `--project`) it loads all the packages more or less instantaneously.

The downside is that generating system images can be quite slow, so we're still working on ways to generate them incrementally. In any case, if you're inspired to work on this kind of stuff, it's definitely something the entire community is interested in!

[0] https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl

jpfr5y ago

Easy, you only have to add a handful of „battery included“ packages to the default system image.

That however means that some packages get a preferred status in the Julia ecosystem.

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