> But it's also a weakness because the first time you start up a REPL and call a bunch of functions, each of those functions has to be compiled from scratch, which takes a long time (google “Julia time to first plot”).
But also to further clarify on this, the context of the article is that Julia 1.9 makes it so that for code in packages, the package authors can set up a "call a bunch of functions" section in the package itself, and the compiled results of those calls will be stored as native code. So anything from those parts will have much lower "time to first X".
But also to further clarify on this, the context of the article is that Julia 1.9 makes it so that for code in packages, the package authors can set up a "call a bunch of functions" section in the package itself, and the compiled results of those calls will be stored as native code. So anything from those parts will have much lower "time to first X".