One thing I'm seeing is that my local build starts way faster (less than a 
sec) than the nightly (~3 sec)
 (Windows here)

Segunda-feira, 31 de Março de 2014 14:45:50 UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski 
escreveu:
>
> Starting up Python is still 10x faster, but we're definitely getting 
> there. Once we get down to 20 ms, I'll be really happy with startup time. 
> Then it will be completely reasonable to write short-lived command-line 
> tools in Julia. Of course, that might happen sooner than we can make the 
> REPL startup that fast since it may be possible to just compile the tools 
> to executables that don't require most of Julia. 
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Tomas Lycken 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> After updating to latest master and recompiling julia, firing up a 
>> terminal and doing "julia" gives a user experience that is comparable to 
>> "python" in speed (i.e. both are ready to roll in less than a second), and 
>> the Julia REPL has a bunch of nice colors. I call that a win =)
>>
>> This is great work indeed!
>>
>> // Tomas
>>
>>
>> On Monday, March 31, 2014 2:38:48 PM UTC+2, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>>
>>> Hey, in networking protocols, infinity is often 15.
>>>
>>> On Mar 31, 2014, at 7:58 AM, Job van der Zwan <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Saturday, 29 March 2014 20:59:19 UTC+1, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    - The new REPL, is pretty clean, simple Julia code. Seriously – 
>>>> terminal 
>>>>    
>>>> support<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/Terminals.jl>, 
>>>>    line 
>>>> editing<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/LineEdit.jl>, 
>>>>    and the REPL 
>>>> itself<https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/REPL.jl>are 
>>>> less than 2000 lines of code – 
>>>>    *total*. This works out to a net code reduction of 33233 lines of 
>>>>    code (GNU readline is 34640 lines of C), while *gaining*functionality. 
>>>> That has to be a project record. 
>>>>    - The new code is infinitely easier to modify, fix and improve, so 
>>>>    REPL-replated bugs will probably get fixed lickety split going forward.
>>>>
>>>>  TIL infinity is approximately 33/2. Seriously though, that's amazing. 
>>> Well done guys!
>>>
>>>
>

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