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by ThomasMoll 1799 days ago
Julia is fairly fast, since its type system _only_ does dynamic/runtime typing, the JIT is optimized towards that. You'll experience some minor startup lag, typically due to initial JIT'ing of any new used functions. However, this has largely be remedied with a compiler backend that completely precomputes this behavior. https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/