Julia 1.8 released

bartoc — Sun, 21 Aug 2022 03:21:18 +0000

The typed globals improvement is really huge imo. It should make the repl quite a big more quick.

I wonder what makes the new thread scheduler composable, typically work stealing schedulers are not 100% composable with other programs because they can cause starvation (fixed with job objects/cgroups) and the kernel doesn't know how much upcoming work there is.

I wish the distinction between mutable and immutable structs was separate from stack vs heap allocation, having to reinitialize a whole immutable struct over and over as fields change and rely on the compiler figuring out what you're up to kinda sucks.

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Julia 1.8 released