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Pkg + BinaryBuilder – The Next Generation

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Re-posted from: https://julialang.org/blog/2019/11/artifacts/index.html

Over the past few months, we have been iterating on and refining a design for Pkg in Julia 1.3+ to reason about binary objects that are not Julia packages. While the motivating application for this work has been improving the installation experience for binaries built with BinaryBuilder.jl, the artifacts subsystem is much more general and is widely applicable to all Julia packages.

Profiling tool wins and woes

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Re-posted from: https://julialang.org/blog/2019/09/profilers/index.html

Profiling tools are awesome. They let us see what actually is affecting our program performance. Profiling tools also are terrible. They lie to us and give us confusing information. They also have some surprisingly new developments: brendangregg's often cloned flamegraphs tool was created in 2011! So here I will be investigating some ways to make our profile reports better; and looking at ways in which they commonly break, to raise awareness of those artifacts in the reports. Instruments.app bad result