(#1906 is not directly related, but there is a discussion at the end of the issues involved in minimization)
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:27 AM, Isaiah Norton <[email protected]>wrote: > Theoretically, yes. The tedious-but-possible theoretical is to have the > following things, plus independent pre-compilation of packages; then the > "minimal base" can be compiled first and all the "internal packages" > compiled independently and linked. Big wins would come from precompiling > linalg and especially inference (the latter changes rarely). > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1906 > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5155 > > The hard theoretical is thread-safe codegen. > > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 10:16 AM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry for bumping a month-old thread, but I was searching for this: >> >> > more time is spent building and precompiling the system image (which >> cannot be sped up with -j N) than actually compiling and linking its C >> sources. >> >> Can you explain why building the system image can't be parallelized? >> Could it theoretically be built in several smaller pieces simultaneously >> then combined together? >> > >
