PackageCompiler.jl
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PackageCompiler.jl
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Potential of the Julia programming language for high energy physics computing
Yes, julia can be called from other languages rather easily, Julia functions can be exposed and called with a C-like ABI [1], and then there's also various packages for languages like Python [2] or R [3] to call Julia code.
With PackageCompiler.jl [4] you can even make AOT compiled standalone binaries, though these are rather large. They've shrunk a fair amount in recent releases, but they're still a lot of low hanging fruit to make the compiled binaries smaller, and some manual work you can do like removing LLVM and filtering stdlibs when they're not needed.
Work is also happening on a more stable / mature system that acts like StaticCompiler.jl [5] except provided by the base language and people who are more experienced in the compiler (i.e. not a janky prototype)
[1] https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/manual/embedding/
[2] https://pypi.org/project/juliacall/
[3] https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/JuliaCall/
[4] https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl
[5] https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl
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Making Python 100x faster with less than 100 lines of Rust
One of Julia's Achilles heels is standalone, ahead-of-time compilation. Technically this is already possible [1], [2], but there are quite a few limitations when doing this (e.g. "Hello world" is 150 MB [7]) and it's not an easy or natural process.
The immature AoT capabilities are a huge pain to deal with when writing large code packages or even when trying to make command line applications. Things have to be recompiled each time the Julia runtime is shut down. The current strategy in the community to get around this seems to be "keep the REPL alive as long as possible" [3][4][5][6], but this isn't a viable option for all use cases.
Until Julia has better AoT compilation support, it's going to be very difficult to develop large scale programs with it. Version 1.9 has better support for caching compiled code, but I really wish there were better options for AoT compiling small, static, standalone executables and libraries.
[1]: https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/
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What's Julia's biggest weakness?
Doesn’t work on Windows, but https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl does.
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I learned 7 programming languages so you don't have to
Also, you can precompile a whole package and just ship the binary. We do this all of the time.
https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl
And getting things precompiled: https://sciml.ai/news/2022/09/21/compile_time/
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Julia performance, startup.jl, and sysimages
You can have a look at PackageCompiler.jl
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Why Julia 2.0 isn’t coming anytime soon (and why that is a good thing)
I think by PackageManager here you mean package compiler, and yes these improvements do not need a 2.0. v1.8 included a few things to in the near future allow for building binaries without big dependencies like LLVM, and finishing this work is indeed slated for the v1.x releases. Saying "we are not doing a 2.0" is precisely saying that this is more important than things which change the user-facing language semantics.
And TTFP does need to be addressed. It's a current shortcoming of the compiler that native and LLVM code is not cached during the precompilation stages. If such code is able to precompile into binaries, then startup time would be dramatically decreased because then a lot of package code would no longer have to JIT compile. Tim Holy and Valentin Churavy gave a nice talk at JuliaCon 2022 about the current progress of making this work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnsONc9DYg0 .
This is all tied up with startup time and are all in some sense the same issue. Currently, the only way to get LLVM code cached, and thus startup time essentially eliminated, is to build it into what's called the "system image". That system image is the binary that package compiler builds (https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl). Julia then ships with a default system image that includes the standard library in order to remove the major chunk of code that "most" libraries share, which is why all of Julia Base works without JIT lag. However, that means everyone wants to have their thing, be it sparse matrices to statistics, in the standard library so that it gets the JIT-lag free build by default. This means the system image is huge, which is why PackageCompiler, which is simply a system for building binaries by appending package code to the system image, builds big binaries. What needs to happen is for packages to be able to precompile in a way that then caches LLVM and native code. Then there's no major compile time advantage to being in the system image, which will allow things to be pulled out of the system image to have a leaner Julia Base build without major drawbacks, which would then help make the system compile. That will then make it so that an LLVM and BLAS build does not have to be in every binary (which is what takes up most of the space and RAM), which would then allow Julia to much more comfortably move beyond the niche of scientific computing.
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Julia for health physics/radiation detection
You're probably dancing around the edges of what [PackageCompiler.jl](https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl) is capable of targeting. There are a few new capabilities coming online, namely [separating codegen from runtime](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/41936) and [compiling small static binaries](https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl), but you're likely to hit some snags on the bleeding edge.
jlrs
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Question: How well-suited is using Rust for complicated mathematics?
And in the rare case that Julia isn't enough, Julia-Rust interop is pretty good! Julia can call Rust using ccall and Rust can call Julia using the jlrs crate.
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jlrs 0.17: GAT-powered generic targets, Julia 1.9 support, build improvements, and more!
Github
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Julia is missing 'pycall' for Rust
While there is Jlrs , there is no seamless and easy way to call Rust. We need 'rustcall' on a level of 'pycall'.
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What's everyone working on this week (43/2022)?
I have a roadmap issue with some ideas/designs/arguments https://github.com/Taaitaaiger/jlrs/issues/66
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I don't want to abandon Rust for Julia
An option for Julia/Rust interop is jlrs
- How to interact Julia and Rust?
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I'm considering Rust, Go, or Julia for my next language and I'd like to hear your thoughts on these
jlrs automates some of this, using stack frames to garantee that Julia won't gc the references you're holding in Rust. It also provides ways to coerce Rust structs into Julia structs, and it does a bunch of other stuff I'm probably forgetting.
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jlrs 0.9: Julia 1.6 support
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What are some alternatives?
StaticCompiler.jl - Compiles Julia code to a standalone library (experimental)
DaemonMode.jl - Client-Daemon workflow to run faster scripts in Julia
julia - The Julia Programming Language
ModelingToolkit.jl - An acausal modeling framework for automatically parallelized scientific machine learning (SciML) in Julia. A computer algebra system for integrated symbolics for physics-informed machine learning and automated transformations of differential equations
Genie.jl - 🧞The highly productive Julia web framework
RCall.jl - Call R from Julia
LuaJIT - Mirror of the LuaJIT git repository
juliaup - Julia installer and version multiplexer
Dash.jl - Dash for Julia - A Julia interface to the Dash ecosystem for creating analytic web applications in Julia. No JavaScript required.
AreWeRustYet - Awesome list of "Are We *thing* Yet" for Rust
Transformers.jl - Julia Implementation of Transformer models
enso - Hybrid visual and textual functional programming.