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Meetup talk 2025-09-25 at 17:00

Diving into Julia JIT compiler and its type inference system

Description

Julia has a JIT compiler that works by doing type inference on code. It tries to guess the types of the variables. With strongly typed languages, the compiler simply mark miss-typed variables as error. But what happens in flexible languages where no such error exists ? How the compiler manage control-flow and exceptions ? We will present how type inference works in Julia and which techniques Julia's people came up to overcome difficulties.