The performance should be fairly close. The advantage of source compilation is that it is easier to edit files in Base and submit those changes as a PR.
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 2:33 AM Gabor <g...@szfki.hu> wrote: > I have always used the downloadable binaries of Julia. > > Please advise: > > Running 64-bit Windows 7 on a Haswell processor with AVX2 instructions > should I expect a speedup or any other advantage from source compilation? >
