There were problems until recently that made it impossible to ship a precompiled sys.so file without breaking some people's systems, so anyone using binaries didn't see the speedup – it was only available if you compiled from source.
On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Viral Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > That is essentially the same as using the most recent source, but since > they are widely used, some features are enabled only once they have been > stable for a while. > > -viral > > > On Saturday, May 31, 2014 4:04:18 PM UTC+5:30, Job van der Zwan wrote: >> >> Wow, that looks like it was a massive effort! >> >> BTW, I subscribed to the nightly build PPA, isn't that equal to building >> from the most recent source? >> >> On Friday, 30 May 2014 21:04:26 UTC+2, Elliot Saba wrote: >>> >>> This would be the static compilation work that was done for 0.3 by >>> everyone in this issue <https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/4898>. >>> It's been available for source-built copies of julia for quite some time, >>> but was only enabled on binary builds recently. >>> -E >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 11:17 AM, Job van der Zwan <[email protected] >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> Just curious what changed under the hood and who to thank for this >>>> improvement? :) >>>> >>> >>>
