Modifiying Julia tuple, Dict and object from C

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@Clonkk

I don’t see why something like void insert_dict(jl_value_t* dict, jl_value_t* key, jl_value_t* value); would be such an issue for the GC. Document that the Dict API can only deal with Julia owned memory and let it segfault otherwise.

I think the issue is that arrays directly map to low level C objects, and since the memory layout of an array is basically the same between Julia and C and copying the memory would be an unnecessary expense they just provided library calls to get at the array’s data.

With a Dict object that is an object created with Julia code, there is no C equivalent of a Dict. If they where to provide a C API for the Dict, then why not IOBuffer or RegEx? Where would the “line” be?