JuliaCon 2026

Since 1.10 there have been significant regressions in (pre)compilation time. Can we make the compiler that fast again? And what have done lately to try and do that?
The talk will go through what tools one can use to optimize the compiler and through a couple of the interesting changes that were needed.

In order to improve the tooling around --trim, we've developed JuliaC.jl. It's a package similar to PackageCompiler, but with a focus on bundling trimming applications.
It has features like bundling, setting rpaths and more interestingly. Privatization, allowing a JuliaC library to be loaded by Julia