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StaticTools.jl
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StaticTools.jl

Enabling StaticCompiler.jl-based compilation of (some) Julia code to standalone native binaries by avoiding GC allocations and llvmcall-ing all the things!

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Enabling StaticCompiler.jl-based compilation of (some) Julia code to standalone native binaries by avoiding GC allocations and llvmcall-ing all the things!

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Observed mentions: 2022-02-15 16:27:11 UTC to 2023-12-27 19:48:51 UTC.

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What Hacker News says

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markkitti·Dec 27, 2023
How about a 16K Hello World? julia> using StaticTools, StaticCompiler julia> hello_world() = printf(c"Hello World\n") hello_world (generic function with 1 method) julia> compile_executable(hello_world, (), "./") "~/hello_world" shell> ./hello_world Hello World shell> du -h hello_world 16K hello_world See https://github.com/brenhinkeller/StaticTools.jl for further details and limitations. For discovering methods you can do julia> ?("hello", 1, 2.0)[TAB] broadcast(f, x::Number...) @ Base.Broadcast broadcast.jl:844 readuntil(filename::AbstractString, args...; kw...) @ Base io.jl:520 ... See the Tab Completion section of the REPL documentation, https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1/stdlib/REPL/#Tab-completion .
In Julia 1.10
markkitti·Jan 29, 2023
We already have some forward prototypes of being able to run Julia ahead-of-time compiled native code from the command line. https://github.com/brenhinkeller/StaticTools.jl I think what we'll end up with is a language that can be used in both a fully static mode and in a dynamic mode along with some possible mixing. We may yet get the benefits of a statically compiled language as the tooling continues to develop. I do not see anything inherent in the language that would prevent that from happening.
In My Journey from R to Julia
cbkeller·Feb 15, 2022
Yeah, not frowned upon at all. StaticCompiler.jl [1] has made huge strides in the past few weeks actually thanks to Mason and Valentin (swapping in GPUCompiler as the backend); you can even compile to a tiny standalone binary without linking to the runtime if you're willing to use some tricks e.g. [2] to avoid GC allocations (stack allocations and manual heap allocations are both fine): # This is all StaticCompiler-friendly using StaticTools function print_args(argc::Int, argv::Ptr{Ptr{UInt8}}) # c"..." lets you construct statically-sized, stack allocated `StaticString`s # We also have m"..." and MallocString if you want the same thing but on the heap printf(c"Argument count is %d:\n", argc) for i=1:argc # iᵗʰ input argument string pᵢ = unsafe_load(argv, i) # Get pointer
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strᵢ = MallocString(pᵢ) # Can wrap to get high-level interface println(strᵢ) # No need to `free` since we didn't allocate this memory end println(c"That was fun, see you next time!") return 0 end # Compile executable using StaticCompiler # `] add https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl` to get latest master filepath = compile_executable(print_args, (Int64, Ptr{Ptr{UInt8}}), "./") yielding: shell> ./print_args 1 2 3 4 5.0 foo Argument count is 7: ./print_args 1 2 3 4 5.0 foo That was fun, see you next time! shell> hyperfine './print_args hello there' Benchmark 1: ./print_args hello there Time (mean ± σ): 2.2 ms ± 0.5 ms [User: 0.8 ms, System: 0.0 ms] Range (min … max): 1.5 ms … 5.5 ms 564 runs Warning: Command took less than 5 ms to complete. Results might be inaccurate. shell> ls -lh print_args -rwxr-xr-x 1 user staff 8.5K Feb 10 02:36 print_args GC allocations are allowed if you use instead the approach in this PR [3], but we haven't wrangled that approach to produce standalone binaries yet. [1] https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl [2] https://github.com/brenhinkeller/StaticTools.jl [3] https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl/pull/58
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