The pre-compiled system image must not have been included in the nightly distribution. I just pinged the OS X nightly maintainer about this on the issue tracker, see: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5459#issuecomment-43418116
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Dom Luna <[email protected]> wrote: > I find it weird that the downloaded one has a drastically slower REPL > startup than when compiled from github repo. > > $ where julia > > /Applications/Julia-0.3.0-prerelease-0b05b21911.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia > /usr/local/bin/julia > > I'm symlinking $HOME/julia/julia to /usr/local/bin/julia > > Here's the startup times > > Downloaded: > > time julia -e 'println("Helo")' > 5.07s user 0.10s system 98% cpu 5.250 total > > Source: > > time /usr/local/bin/julia -e 'println("Helo")' > 0.28s user 0.08s system 117% cpu 0.308 total > > The versions are 1 day old from each other. > > Downloaded: > > _ > _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing > (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org > _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics > | | | | | | |/ _` | | > | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0-prerelease+3053 (2014-05-14 22:03 > UTC) > _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit 0b05b21* (2 days old master) > |__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0 > > > Source: > > _ > _ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing > (_) | (_) (_) | Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org > _ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type "help()" to list help topics > | | | | | | |/ _` | | > | | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0-prerelease+3081 (2014-05-16 15:12 > UTC) > _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit eb4bfcc (1 day old master) > |__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0 > > The main thing I notice is the apple-darwin12.5.0 vs apple-darwin13.1.0. > I'm not sure what that means. I'm on OSX 10.9.2. > > Dom > >
