[julia-users] Re: Just installed Julia, some questions about parallelizing it

2014-03-05 Thread Tony Kelman
Sorry for bumping a month-old thread, but I was searching for this: more time is spent building and precompiling the system image (which cannot be sped up with -j N) than actually compiling and linking its C sources. Can you explain why building the system image can't be parallelized? Could

Re: [julia-users] Re: Just installed Julia, some questions about parallelizing it

2014-03-05 Thread Isaiah Norton
Theoretically, yes. The tedious-but-possible theoretical is to have the following things, plus independent pre-compilation of packages; then the minimal base can be compiled first and all the internal packages compiled independently and linked. Big wins would come from precompiling linalg and

[julia-users] Re: Just installed Julia, some questions about parallelizing it

2014-02-03 Thread Patrick O'Leary
On Sunday, February 2, 2014 9:29:09 PM UTC-6, Jeff Pickhardt wrote: Finally, when I compiled it, there were a ton of warnings. Stuff like: unused variables, incompatible pointer types, etc. You'll find that, as with the warnings you pasted here, these almost always come from Julia's