slightly improve type instability and add a precompile statement #5
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src/VersionParsing.jl
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| ccall(:jl_generating_output, Cint, ()) == 1 || return nothing | ||
| precompile(Tuple{typeof(VersionParsing.vparse), String}) | ||
| end | ||
| _precompile_() |
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What's the advantage of this over calling precompile(...) unconditionally?
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I've just seen everyone do it like this so it only runs when the package is precompiling (and not when it is loaded with e.g. --compiled-modules=no). But I could just do it like that if you prefer.
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ccall'ing an undocumented internal function seems like a weird idiom to encourage.
Why isn't precompile just a no-op if --compiled-modules=no?
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I don't know. How do you want to proceed here?
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Why isn't precompile just a no-op if --compiled-modules=no?
Because a few functions must be precompiled before you call them. A good example is anything that switches typeinference itself to a different implementation.
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Because a few functions must be precompiled before you call them. A good example is anything that switches typeinference itself to a different implementation.
It seems like those weird functions should be the ones doing undocumented internal ccalls, rather than forcing this idiom on everyone else…
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precompile literally means "compile now without calling it." Technically, it bears no relation to --compiled-modules=no which has to do with whether you load code from *.ji files.
But if you hate this we can just delete it. There is essentially no cost and this discussion has already grown more expensive than that.
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Removed the ccall.
src/VersionParsing.jl
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| ccall(:jl_generating_output, Cint, ()) == 1 || return nothing | ||
| precompile(Tuple{typeof(VersionParsing.vparse), String}) | ||
| end | ||
| _precompile_() |
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But you might want to do this only for Julia 1.4.2 and higher. There are occasional segfaults on earlier versions.
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Bump can this be merged? This is the standard way of doing it in every single package that provides precompile signatures. I think having this be consistent with the rest of the ecosystem is worth it over hacking in some other workaround that looks more "official". |
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Friendly bump. |
This package showed up in a profile trace I did when some packages where loaded.
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