Merge pull request #11589 from JuliaLang/amitm/precompile_abspath

precompile abspath, normpath for UTF8String for a startup speedup

Author: vtjnash

base/precompile.jl

@@ -172,7 +172,10 @@ precompile(Base._uv_hook_alloc_buf, (Base.TTY, UInt))
 precompile(Base._uv_hook_readcb, (Base.TTY, Int, Ptr{Void}, UInt))
 precompile(Base._uv_hook_writecb_task, (Base.TTY, Ptr{Void}, Int32))
 precompile(Base.abs, (Char,))
+precompile(Base.abspath, (UTF8String, UTF8String))
+precompile(Base.abspath, (UTF8String,))
 precompile(Base.abspath, (ASCIIString, ASCIIString))
+precompile(Base.abspath, (ASCIIString,))
 precompile(Base.alignment, (Float64,))
 precompile(Base.any, (Function, Array{Any,1}))
 precompile(Base.arg_gen, (ASCIIString,))
@@ -297,7 +300,10 @@ precompile(Base.next, (IntSet, Int))
 precompile(Base.next, (UnitRange{Int},Int))
 precompile(Base.nextind, (ASCIIString, Int))
 precompile(Base.nnz, (BitArray{1},))
+precompile(Base.normpath, (ASCIIString, ASCIIString))
 precompile(Base.normpath, (ASCIIString,))
+precompile(Base.normpath, (UTF8String, UTF8String))
+precompile(Base.normpath, (UTF8String,))
 precompile(Base.notify, (Condition, Any))
 precompile(Base.notify_empty, (Base.RemoteValue,))
 precompile(Base.notify_full, (Base.RemoteValue,))