Tim Holy
Tim Holy is the Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis. Valentin Churavy is a Ph.D. student in MIT's Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Both are long-time contributors to Julia and its package ecosystem.
Session
Julia code can be precompiled to save time loading and/or compiling it on first execution. Precompilation is nuanced because Julia code comes in many flavors, including source text, lowered code, type-inferred code, and various stages of optimization to reach native machine code. We will summarize what has (and hasn't) previously been precompiled, some of the challenges posed by Julia's dynamism, the nature of some recent changes, and prospects for near-term extensions to precompilation.