Andy Ferris

The `empty` API occassionally gets used defined immutable containers, like StaticArrays' `SVector` and `MVector`. Internally, we use `Base.emptymutable` to construct arrays (and sets/dicts) that we are about to use `push!`...

Traits, functions, defaults

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I'm excited someone is looking into this. :) Apart from the design of a formal array interface (definition of traits such as mutability) I was wondering what the "meta" design...

Added support for `Float16`

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- Saving and loading Float16 values is now supported - Float16 is no longer an "opaque" type. - Added some more wrapper functions relating to setting and getting floating-point datatype...

When writing an attribute, etc, the string encoding is currently determined from the Julia string type that you are writing. However, in Julia 0.5, this will always be `String` and...

Type inference improvements are necessary for parts of this package to work well, so we may as well make it official.

Name proposal for lazy operations: past tense

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I've been happy to seperate the semantics of greedy-vs-lazy operations into seperate functions, like `map` vs `mapview` and `group` vs `groupview`. However, the `view` suffix is a little tiresome. I'm...

Qt stdout runtime warnings: Attempt to set a screen on a child window.

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I'm getting a lot of stdout chatter of the form: ``` 0x1d4d670 void QWindowPrivate::setTopLevelScreen(QScreen*, bool) ( QScreen(0x197b460) ): Attempt to set a screen on a child window. 0x1d6ee10 void QWindowPrivate::setTopLevelScreen(QScreen*,...

RFC: Changed mouse controls

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I'd like some feedback on some possible UI modifications I'm playing with in displaz. Some things I'm considering when designing this include the fact that its difficult to press the...

Allocations and GC being ignored?

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I'm finding different results using BenchmarkTools as opposed to my own loops and `@time`, particularly regarding allocating operations. I'm benchmarking `Base.Array` vs the types in *StaticArrays.jl*. Some of these arrays...