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by fault1 1661 days ago
I would say the almost every version of Julia 1.x has better in terms of code startup.

as in 1.7 > 1.6 > 1.5 > 1.4 > 1.3 > etc...

it's especially goten way better since julia 1.5, so really mostly in the last few years.

In julia 1.8, what's interesting to me is that the julia runtime will be separated from the llvm codegen; https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/41936

the immediate effect is to allow small static binaries without a huge runtime (namely the LLVM ORC), but the side effect is probably that the interpreter will also get better in cases where you don't want JIT.