Julia 0.7 Documentation

Welcome to the documentation for Julia 0.7.

Please read the release notes to see what has changed since the last release.

• Manual

• Base

• Standard Library

• Developer Documentation

Manual

• Introduction

• Getting Started

• Variables

• Integers and Floating-Point Numbers

• Mathematical Operations and Elementary Functions

• Complex and Rational Numbers

• Strings

• Functions

• Control Flow

• Scope of Variables

• Types

• Methods

• Constructors

• Conversion and Promotion

• Interfaces

• Modules

• Documentation

• Metaprogramming

• Multi-dimensional Arrays

• Missing Values

• Networking and Streams

• Parallel Computing

• Running External Programs

• Calling C and Fortran Code

• Handling Operating System Variation

• Environment Variables

• Embedding Julia

• Packages

• Profiling

• Stack Traces

• Performance Tips

• Workflow Tips

• Style Guide

• Frequently Asked Questions

• Noteworthy Differences from other Languages

• Unicode Input

Base

• Essentials

• Collections and Data Structures

• Mathematics

• Numbers

• Strings

• Arrays

• Tasks

• Distributed Computing

• Multi-Threading

• Shared Arrays

• Constants

• Filesystem

• I/O and Network

• Punctuation

• Sorting and Related Functions

• Package Manager Functions

• Iteration utilities

• C Interface

• C Standard Library

• Dynamic Linker

• StackTraces

• SIMD Support

Standard Library

• The Julia REPL

• Base64

• CRC32c

• SHA

• Dates

• Delimited Files

• Distributed Computing

• File Events

• Iterative Eigensolvers

• Memory-mapped I/O

• Printf

• Profiling

• Random Numbers

• Shared Arrays

• Linear Algebra

• Sparse Arrays

• Unicode

• Unit Testing

Developer Documentation

• Reflection and introspection

• Documentation of Julia's Internals

  • Initialization of the Julia runtime

  • Julia ASTs

  • More about types

  • Memory layout of Julia Objects

  • Eval of Julia code

  • Calling Conventions

  • High-level Overview of the Native-Code Generation Process

  • Julia Functions

  • Base.Cartesian

  • Talking to the compiler (the :meta mechanism)

  • SubArrays

  • System Image Building

  • Working with LLVM

  • printf() and stdio in the Julia runtime

  • Bounds checking

  • Proper maintenance and care of multi-threading locks

  • Arrays with custom indices

  • Module loading

  • Inference

• Developing/debugging Julia's C code

  • Reporting and analyzing crashes (segfaults)

  • gdb debugging tips

  • Using Valgrind with Julia

  • Sanitizer support