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Compiles Julia code to a standalone library (experimental)

19 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 0 stories, 19 comments · first 2021-03-25 · latest 2025-11-27

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  1. oh god... he has a humongous AI generated PR for julia too https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/180
    comment by mikelitoris · 2025-11-27 · in Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg
  2. …://github.com/rerun-io/rerun/pull/11900#issuecomment-35... https://github.com/ocaml/dune/issues/12731 https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/180 Seems he's just on a rampage of "fixing" issues for trendy packages to get some…
    comment by pluc · 2025-11-25 · in AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
  3. …one is not publicly available I'd say that Julia cannot easily be called from other languages. [1]: https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl [2]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl [3]: https://github.com/MilesCranmer/PySR
    comment by huijzer · 2023-12-04 · in Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing
  4. …[5] https://github.com/Taaitaaiger/jlrs [6] https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl [7] https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl
    comment by eigenspace · 2023-12-04 · in Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing
  5. …ang.org/en/v1/manual/performance-tips/#Wr... [4]: https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl [5]: https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl [6]: https://github.com/JuliaDebug/Debugger.jl [7]: https://timholy.github.io/Revise.jl/stable…
    comment by suavesito · 2023-09-09 · in Julia and Mojo Mandelbrot Benchmark
  6. https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/issues/59 Would working on this feasible?
    comment by xgdgsc · 2023-06-04 · in Building a Lox Interpreter in Julia
  7. …standalone executables and libraries. [1]: https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/ [2]: https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl [3]: https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-the-ion-command-line-f... [4]:…
    comment by ubj · 2023-03-30 · in Making Python faster with Rust
  8. …https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/stable/apps.h... https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl
    comment by markkitti · 2022-05-16 · in My Experiences with Julia
  9. …was fun, see you next time!") return 0 end # Compile executable using StaticCompiler # `] add https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl` to get latest master filepath = compile_executable(print_args, (Int64, Ptr{Ptr{UInt8}}), "./")…
    comment by cbkeller · 2022-02-15 · in Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later
  10. …rewrite, so stay tuned on that front. [1] https://github.com/JuliaSIMD/LoopVectorization.jl [2] https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl
    comment by cbkeller · 2022-02-15 · in Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later
  11. …development, that I'm currently feeling pretty good about it's future. Here's the feature roadmap https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/issues/59 that should help people understand what currently works and what I think I can…
    comment by eigenspace · 2022-02-14 · in Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later
  12. StaticCompiler.jl is making huge strides. 12 days ago a rewrite was merged ( https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/46 ), and now the static compiler can allocate and use the runtime ( https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/p…
    comment by ChrisRackauckas · 2022-02-14 · in Why We Use Julia, 10 Years Later
  13. …done for the GPU stack. Someone just has to retarget that to cpu LLVM, and there's a start here: https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/issues/43
    comment by amkkma · 2021-11-17 · in Show HN: Prometeo – a Python-to-C transpiler for high-performance computing
  14. …And StaticCompiler hasn't been updated in over a year. There's much more recent work here: https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/46 and apparently some more is still ongoing privately. That said, yeah. I would not recommend…
    comment by eigenspace · 2021-06-21 · in Julia: Faster than Fortran, cleaner than Numpy
  15. I hope it'll get there! If anyone wants to help out, check out (e.g.) https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/46
    comment by cbkeller · 2021-06-20 · in Is Julia Really Fast?
  16. …hiding the whole ~200mb of julia runtime in the binary. https://github.com/JuliaGPU/GPUCompiler.jl/ https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/
    comment by up6w6 · 2021-06-14 · in Cuda.jl v3.3: union types, debug info, graph APIs
  17. …about it on HN, get familiar with the current attempts at true static compilation in e.g. https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/46 and start contributing yourself.
    comment by cbkeller · 2021-05-28 · in Julia 1.6 addresses latency issues
  18. This is the PR to look at if you want to try and help: https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/46 I think this isn't really a great place for beginners though unfortunately. This project is tightly coupled to undocumented…
    comment by eigenspace · 2021-03-25 · in Julia 1.6 Highlights
  19. https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/46
    comment by eigenspace · 2021-03-25 · in Julia 1.6 Highlights