Keith Mason

I'm on Windows 7, pretty up-to-date with patches. Here's versioninfo: ``` julia> versioninfo() Julia Version 0.5.0 Commit 3c9d753* (2016-09-19 18:14 UTC) Platform Info: System: NT (x86_64-w64-mingw32) CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7...

I don't think anyone wants to use JSON to store data in a type preserving way. Rather, the more common use case is to use JSON as a transport layer...

I don't think an alternate invocation of `using` would work well. That would mean that all dependent modules would also have to call `usebinary`. To me, it makes more sense...

In our experience, the .ji files are self contained. Source .jl files are not needed. However binary dependencies are still obviously required, so they sometimes have to be handled specially....

It's a somewhat tricky process. 1) I've modified base/loading.jl to skip checking for the .jl files. I changed `find_in_load_path` to conditionally return an empty string when a task variable is...

Hey, reviving this. I understand no work has been done, but I had some other thoughts on the subject. Effectively, a .ji file is a custom construct that contains everything...

> No, .ji is custom yes, not with native code, still seems platform specific. I think that if you run `precompile(...)` commands in open code, that the native code that's...

Doing a little more digging, the symbols exported by sys.so seem to be the same naming structure as the ones in ~/.julia/compiled/.../*.so. So it seems like it ought not to...