# What is grounded type in Julia?

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**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Created:** [January 13, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-grounded-type-in-julia/74579 "2022-01-13T22:05:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 13, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-grounded-type-in-julia/74579/2 "2022-01-13T22:36:51Z")

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> **[Type Stability in Julia: Avoiding Performance Pathologies in JIT Compilation...](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.01950)**
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> As a scientific programming language, Julia strives for performance but also provides high-level productivity features. To avoid performance pathologies, Julia users are expected to adhere to a coding discipline that enables so-called type stability....

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