Stream: helpdesk (published)

Topic: Julia 1.11 loading time improvements?


view this post on Zulip Fons van der Plas (Aug 16 2024 at 17:36):

Hey! I am wondering if Julia 1.11 makes any improvements to install times, loading times, TTFX and the like? I looked at the release notes but couldn't find something!

view this post on Zulip Jakob Nybo Nissen (Aug 17 2024 at 09:09):

Last I checked, 1.11 has a bunch of regressions, making precompilatio especially, but TTFX in general, slower.

view this post on Zulip Timothy (Aug 17 2024 at 09:23):

As I see it, 1.11 is mostly about nice new capabilities that will take a few releases for us to really see the full benefits of (e.g. Memory)

view this post on Zulip Fons van der Plas (Aug 17 2024 at 10:05):

Thanks, that makes sense! @Timothy do you mean that the 1.11 features will give TTFX benefits from packages, or Julia itself? or something else?

view this post on Zulip Fons van der Plas (Aug 17 2024 at 10:08):

One thing is relocatable precompile files in 1.11 – I think there is the intention to one day download precompile files from package server, which can be faster than precompiling yourself. So that's an example of a feature that can lead to TTFX improvements in a future release.

view this post on Zulip Christopher Rackauckas (Aug 17 2024 at 12:24):

Yes, we do plan to get infra to offload a lot to a server

view this post on Zulip Christopher Rackauckas (Aug 17 2024 at 12:24):

right now there are some regressions though

view this post on Zulip Mason Protter (Aug 17 2024 at 12:28):

a lot of those regressions are because loading Pkg and some other stdlibs is no longer free


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