On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 10:02:21 PM UTC-5, Test This wrote: > > This is awesome. That would provide an easy way to scale a web-application > at least to some extent by outsourcing the CPU intensive calculation out of > Node. >
And you get access to BLAS, Mocha (GPU even), JuMP, Optim, Stats. Good for fast access to website oriented machine learning stuff; regressions, recommender systems, etc. > > Currently, Julia takes a long time to start up. Does the Julia process > start when "include myjuliafile.jl" is called? If so, can one call this > line somewhere when the server starts. > Because it's an embed, Julia exists/executes as part of the node process in another thread. The engine starts up the first time a call to eval, exec, Script is made. For first time stuff especially loading big packages, there's going to be some lag because of the action of the JIT, but I haven't seen lag otherwise. > Otherwise, the start up time will increase the wait for the web clients. > There should not be re-JITing per connection. so I expect this to not be a problem. Feedback?
