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Include information about building system image #718

Closed AustinPrivett closed 6 years ago

AustinPrivett commented 6 years ago

I have been using Julia for a couple of months now and did not come across http://www.stochasticlifestyle.com/7-julia-gotchas-handle/ until recently.

If building the system image still does what is mentioned at that website (i.e., allow all compiler optimizations unlike the pre-built binaries), I think it is helpful to point that out early on to give new users better performance.

ViralBShah commented 6 years ago

I feel like this is something that belongs somewhere in the Julia docs - but not directly on the downloads page. I wonder what others think.

ararslan commented 6 years ago

I agree. To me this is more "advanced user" territory that 99% of users shouldn't need to care about. @AustinPrivett, would you be willing to submit a PR to Julia to add this information to the documentation?

fredrikekre commented 6 years ago

See also https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/24646

KristofferC commented 6 years ago

For Julia 0.7 this is not accurate anymore (pre built binaries are built for multiple targets and jit compiled code is compiled for native target).

AustinPrivett commented 6 years ago

In light of the modifications to Julia 0.7 mentioned by KristofferC, I'm closing this and not worrying about adding this information to the documentation.