Closed AustinPrivett closed 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.
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?
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).
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.
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.