Regarding this comment: > Even just serializing a single string profile shows masses of calls in inference.jl. Surely this shouldn't be necessary?
You'll need to run it twice to get useful results; the first time, the code must be compiled and therefore many calls are indeed made to inference. On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:06 PM, Samuel Colvin <samcol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Serlialize is very slow for string. > > Is there any way the to speed it up at present, or an alternative way to > save data structures which is significantly faster? > > Are there any plans to speed up string serialization in Julia? Is there an > easy low hanging fruit which needs work and could speed things up? > > Data IO is currently a big bottleneck for me using Julia, right now it's > still tempting to use Python as one can open and save csv/dataframe files > much much more quickly. > > Even just serializing a single string profile shows masses of calls in > inference.jl. Surely this shouldn't be necessary? >