The pre-compiled system image must not have been included in the nightly
distribution.
I just pinged the OS X nightly maintainer about this on the issue tracker,
see:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5459#issuecomment-43418116
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Dom Luna dluna...@gmail.com wrote:
I find it weird that the downloaded one has a drastically slower REPL
startup than when compiled from github repo.
$ where julia
/Applications/Julia-0.3.0-prerelease-0b05b21911.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/julia
/usr/local/bin/julia
I'm symlinking $HOME/julia/julia to /usr/local/bin/julia
Here's the startup times
Downloaded:
time julia -e 'println(Helo)'
5.07s user 0.10s system 98% cpu 5.250 total
Source:
time /usr/local/bin/julia -e 'println(Helo)'
0.28s user 0.08s system 117% cpu 0.308 total
The versions are 1 day old from each other.
Downloaded:
_
_ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
(_) | (_) (_)| Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type help() to list help topics
| | | | | | |/ _` | |
| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0-prerelease+3053 (2014-05-14 22:03
UTC)
_/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit 0b05b21* (2 days old master)
|__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0
Source:
_
_ _ _(_)_ | A fresh approach to technical computing
(_) | (_) (_)| Documentation: http://docs.julialang.org
_ _ _| |_ __ _ | Type help() to list help topics
| | | | | | |/ _` | |
| | |_| | | | (_| | | Version 0.3.0-prerelease+3081 (2014-05-16 15:12
UTC)
_/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_| | Commit eb4bfcc (1 day old master)
|__/ | x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0
The main thing I notice is the apple-darwin12.5.0 vs apple-darwin13.1.0.
I'm not sure what that means. I'm on OSX 10.9.2.
Dom
