Internals & Design

Internals Discussion about the internals of the Julia language. To reduce potential noise the creation of topics is limited to Trust-Level 2 e.g. Regulars, but everyone can see the discussions.

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
About the Internals & Design category Internals & Design	1	2780	November 16, 2016
Method to unsafely close a mmap Internals & Design io , feature-request	1	162	June 16, 2025
Pre-release versions of packages Internals & Design question	22	2087	June 16, 2025
PR and running Julia test Internals & Design question	4	132	June 16, 2025
How is `Symbol` special? Internals & Design	8	161	June 14, 2025
Why is `Expr` mutable? Internals & Design	10	389	June 14, 2025
Ahead of Time Compilation in 1.11 Internals & Design question	7	1343	June 10, 2025
Documenting nested functions Internals & Design question , documentation , potential-bug , docstring	2	269	June 9, 2025
Default Real (Float) kind? Internals & Design float	50	752	June 7, 2025
State of currying-PR Internals & Design	14	2139	June 6, 2025
Could introducing formal interfaces be nonbreaking? Internals & Design speculative	36	702	June 4, 2025
Destructuring syntax in julia 1.7 Internals & Design destructuring	66	9729	October 27, 2022
Better error message for modified structs in Julia >= 1.12 Internals & Design	5	331	May 23, 2025
Thought: Move GC to packages Internals & Design	4	506	May 22, 2025
How is data routed between distributed processes? Internals question , performance , distributed	0	99	May 17, 2025
Julia 2.0, new scope rules, and other breaking changes Internals & Design	4	511	May 17, 2025
Remove the soft scope altogether and make it global Internals & Design proposal , scope	49	4299	May 17, 2025
Why does runtime dispatch allocate when the return type is inferred? Internals & Design memory-allocation , runtime-dispatch	5	222	May 17, 2025
Datatypes SIMD by default? (as in Mojo) Internals & Design question , simd	14	1062	May 15, 2025
Lexical scope vs. Dynamic scope Internals & Design	28	2482	May 14, 2025
Calling convension, should Julia "preserve_none"? Internals & Design	3	186	May 11, 2025
Interfaces/traits in julia 2.0 and multiple inheritance Internals traits , interface	37	2690	May 7, 2025
Behavior changes with introduction of binding partitions Internals & Design	4	325	May 4, 2025
Juliaup: a modest suggestion Internals & Design	62	2537	May 4, 2025
Startup time of 1000 packages – 53% slower in Julia 1.12 vs 1.10 Internals & Design performance , ttfx , latency	50	3095	May 4, 2025
Redesigning String, optimising small strings and comparison Internals & Design strings	71	2511	May 3, 2025
BroadcastStyle of a SubArray Internals & Design broadcasting , adapt	0	103	April 18, 2025
Function definition Expr that prints incorrectly but evals correctly Internals & Design	1	157	April 14, 2025
Absence of method to convert NamedTuple -> Dictionary? Internals & Design question	4	361	March 28, 2025
Designing a Paths Julep Internals & Design proposal , filesystem , path , rfc	145	4191	April 7, 2025