By: oxinabox.github.io

Re-posted from: https://www.oxinabox.net/2018/10/03/Dispatch,-Traits-and-Metaprogramming-Over-Reflection.html

This is a blog post about about dispatch.
Mostly, single dispatch, though it trivially generalises to multiple dispatch,
because julia is a multiple dispatch language.

This post starts simple, and becomes complex.

• Beginning with, introductory julia skills: dispatch
• continue to intermidate julia skills: traits
• and finishing up with advanced techniques: metaprogramming over reflection

The last of which is kinda evil.

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By: oxinabox.github.io

Re-posted from: https://white.ucc.asn.au/2018/07/14/Asynchronous-and-Distributed-File-Loading.html

Today we are going to look at loading large datasets in a asynchronous and distributed fashion.
In a lot of circumstances it is best to work with such datasets in an entirely distributed fashion,
but for this demonstration we will be assuming that that is not possible,
because you need to Channel it into some serial process.
But it doesn’t have to be the case.
Anyway, we use this to further introduce Channels and RemoteChannels.
I have blogged about Channels before,
you make wish to skim that first.
That article focused on single producer single consumer.
This post will focus on multiple producers, single consumer.
(though you’ll probably be able to workout multiple consumers from there, it is pretty semetrical).
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