By: Dr. Jeff Bezanson

Re-posted from: https://info.juliahub.com/blog/new-ways-to-compile-julia-blog

At JuliaCon Local in Eindhoven in December 2023, Jeff Bezanson, co-creator of Julia and co-founder of JuliaHub, presented a talk on the state of Julia binaries and the goal to generate smaller ones. A common request by developers in the Julia developer survey is the ability to produce smaller, self-contained binaries. In the Eindhoven talk, Jeff shared a graph showing the progression of binary sizes generated by PackageCompiler.jl. There has been significant progress since then, and the latest update shows a huge drop in size, thanks to the trimming mechanism.