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  1. It does, in the base library in fact: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/mmap.jl Here is the relevant documentation: http://julia.readthedocs.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#memory-m...
    comment by ninjin · 2014-09-16 · in SIMD Vectorization in Julia
  2. Is https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265 the issue you are referring to? If so, not fixed. Not sure about the second part, but `workspace()` was added in 0.3 ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/release-0.3/NEWS.md ,…
    comment by idunning · 2014-08-23 · in Julia 0.3 released
  3. Release notes here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/v0.3.0-rc1/NEWS.md
    comment by mthomas · 2014-07-14 · in Julia 0.3 Release Candidate 1
  4. To get a full sense of the level of activity, see here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pulse (and that is only the core - there is also considerable activity in the packages) More frequent posts on the main blog would indeed be a good…
    comment by ihnorton · 2014-07-01 · in My Experience at JuliaCon
  5. …If you need evidence of a civil, non-snarky, supportive community look no further than this: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6829 A more typical issue interaction is this: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/6769 This is…
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2014-05-22 · in R beats Python, R beats Julia, Anyone else wanna challenge R?
  6. …Julia to make its macros much more simple and sane, incorporating some of the concepts from PLOT. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/6910
    comment by 3JPLW · 2014-05-22 · in Talking with Mikel Evins about the Lisp-based Newton OS from Apple
  7. …is possible. There is a special "make source-dist" target which will grab everything you need (see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/DISTRIBUTING.... ). We are not distributing this bundle ourselves right now, but it's worth…
    comment by ihnorton · 2014-05-15 · in Neural networks and a dive into Julia
  8. …on ARM [1], but there's still a lot of work to be done. But it is certainly not impossible. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3134#issuecomment-...
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2014-05-15 · in Neural networks and a dive into Julia
  9. …and http://grollchristian.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/julia-inherit... and https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4935
    comment by xioxox · 2014-05-01 · in Julia Impressions
  10. …fulfill the requirements of an interface. But it looks like it's definitely on the roadmap [2]. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5#issuecomment-330... [2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4935#issuecomment-... [See…
    comment by 3JPLW · 2014-02-23 · in Efficient Aggregates in Julia
  11. …problems that are reproducible, it would be great to have bug reports so we can improve things: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues .
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2014-02-16 · in Julia for Matlab users
  12. It is developed on the master branch, and there's a v0.3 milestone for the related issues. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues?milestone=7&page=1... You can find recent binaries here: http://status.julialang.org/ You can also check…
    comment by pygy_ · 2014-02-03 · in Julia, the One Programming Language to Rule Them All
  13. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5227 for the open PR. The benchmark there suggests 2-3x improvement. There is a decent amount of low-hanging fruit, although "truly high performance garbage collection" means different things for…
    comment by simonster · 2014-02-03 · in Julia, the One Programming Language to Rule Them All
  14. …not jumping on the next new thing. Go with something that has at least a few years behind it. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia https://github.com/rails/rails https://github.com/scala/scala https://github.com/joyent/node…
    comment by pedalpete · 2014-01-31 · in Ask HN: How do you architect software that needs to be maintained for 30-years?
  15. …big of a deal if you are loading code from disk, as opposed to writing functions at the REPL. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265 .
    comment by simonster · 2014-01-27 · in Try Julia
  16. …isn't the right word, since broken automatic compilation has been a known problem for two years: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/265 .
    comment by Stubb · 2014-01-26 · in Try Julia
  17. …allows e.g. a*pi to be extremely accurate if a is, e.g. a BigInt. This issue was also reported at https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5561
    comment by KenoFischer · 2014-01-26 · in Try Julia
  18. That's in the works: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/5046 for inline LLVM IR in Julia, with potential future extension to other languages.
    comment by simonster · 2014-01-23 · in Why I'm Betting On Julia
  19. And embedding (and its documentation) will likely get much better very soon. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/4997
    comment by 3JPLW · 2014-01-23 · in Why I'm Betting On Julia
  20. …One of the best examples of this is the package manager's concise wrapping of git CLI commands: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/pkg/git.... (aside: there has been some discussing of moving to libgit2 for performance…
    comment by ihnorton · 2014-01-09 · in Homogenization of scientific computing – Python is eating other languages’ lunch
  21. …LuaJIT and Julia. Feel free to borrow (MIT licensed, but I'm willing to relicense whatever I can): https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/test/perf/mic...
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2013-12-27 · in Is Ruby Fast Yet?
  22. …This makes vectorized operations on slices of arrays sometimes faster in numpy than in julia. See https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3701 .
    comment by micro2588 · 2013-11-29 · in Why I’m not on the Julia bandwagon (yet) (2012)
  23. …complete with pretty Gadfly-generated graphs, which can be found in the discussion of this issue: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3965 . Interestingly, I believe that Kazushige Goto, who originally created GotoBLAS, now works on…
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2013-11-29 · in Why I’m not on the Julia bandwagon (yet) (2012)
  24. …now. But, this issue is well-identified in the Julia dev community, and is on the roadmap for 0.3: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/4853
    comment by idunning · 2013-11-26 · in Julia for Numerical Computation in MIT Courses
  25. …GitHub umbrella issue tracking support for all of the pieces of functionality that Kahan advocates: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2976 I'm not sure about signaling NaNs though. There have been rumblings that future hardware…
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2013-11-02 · in An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (1998)
  26. …working on documentation. I assume you're talking about the reflection section? There's issue https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2886 open about that and it will probably be addressed by the end of the week (since it's tagged for…
    comment by KenoFischer · 2013-08-20 · in Julia introspects: see the AST, LLVM IR, and native assembly for any function
  27. …2 of highly optimized C++ code when implementing realistic linear programming codes in pure Julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia-tutorial/blob/master/Nume... . The benchmarks appear on page 7 of their presentation. This statement…
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2013-04-16 · in Show HN: I'm building an open-source, high-frequency trading system
  28. I created a GitHub account just for Julia, and the issue 2738 is here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/2738
    comment by shared4you · 2013-04-03 · in Videos from the Julia tutorial at MIT
  29. …completely transparently with other numeric types. A very simple example can be found here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/examples/modi... These 13 lines of code define a modular integer type that has the same storage and…
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2013-04-02 · in Videos from the Julia tutorial at MIT
  30. And for the source link: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/v0.1
    comment by codemac · 2013-02-14 · in Julia v0.1 released
  31. I'm the OP of the thread you linked to. This patch will hopefully appease some of your concerns: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/2278 Do you know if the following is single-threaded? I'm not familiar with python.…
    comment by pygy_ · 2013-02-12 · in Julia, I love you (2012)
  32. Actually, it takes real effort to make GCC not completely optimize-away this kind of stuff for C: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1325
    comment by lliiffee · 2013-02-12 · in Julia, I love you (2012)
  33. …it is possible and on it's way. for ruby cf https://github.com/ipython/ipython/pull/2643 and Julia https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1330
    comment by carreau · 2012-12-12 · in IPython gets $1.15M funding
  34. Except that the matrix multiplication benchmark uses pure javascript (see the source here: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/test/perf/per... ). I wonder how JS would do with bindings to LAPACK. And then there is a bias in…
    comment by friggeri · 2012-04-28 · in The fastest Statistical Programming Language is …Javascript?
  35. …[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.numeric.general/49... [2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/base/array.jl [3] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/julia-dev/YYRa6Iveevg/disc... [4] https://groups.google.com
    comment by bugsbunnyak · 2012-04-23 · in Julia, Python and Cython
  36. …RStudio (which itself is web-based, even in local mode). There is already an emacs mode for Julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/contrib/julia...
    comment by etrain · 2012-04-10 · in A Matlab Programmer's Take On Julia
  37. …to fire up first... Any thoughts? Edit: Submitted it on GitHub and it seems to be a genuine bug: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/661
    comment by a_bonobo · 2012-04-02 · in Julia, I Love You
  38. …will probably not be quite the same as something like gnuplot or ggplot2. Further information: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/wiki/Graphics https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/589 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/314
    comment by otoburb · 2012-04-02 · in Julia, I Love You
  39. …code is inherent. Sometimes being that meta just makes your brain hurt. Our printf implementation ( https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/j/printf.j ) is about as bad as it gets and it's still pretty understandable — aside from…
    comment by StefanKarpinski · 2012-02-19 · in Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to technical computing
  40. …your wiki and fix code samples where multiple lines have been concatenated into a single line? E.g. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/wiki/Types-and-their-repr... , heading `Built-in types`.
    comment by tomp · 2012-02-18 · in Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to technical computing
  41. …other indexing scheme in julia, since all the array indexing code is implemented in julia itself. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/j/array.j#L15... I personally would find multiple indexing schemes confusing both for usage as…
    comment by ViralBShah · 2012-02-18 · in Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to technical computing
  42. Is it due to openblas not building? This may help: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/370
    comment by ViralBShah · 2012-02-18 · in Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to technical computing
  43. They do link to the code: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/tree/master/test/perf . It doesn't look like a very reliable microbenchmark - run test x 5 times - but it should provide a useful starting point if you want to run your own.
    comment by EricBurnett · 2012-02-18 · in Why we created Julia - new language for fresh approach to technical computing