Julia High Performance - Second Edition

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, function or method names, folder names, and filenames. Here is an example: "Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system."

A block of code is set as follows:

struct Pixel{T}     x::Int64     y::Int64     color::T end

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

function sum_cols_matrix(x)    num_cols = size(x, 2)    s = zeros(num_cols)    for i = 1:num_cols       s[i] = sum_vector(x[:, i])   end   return s end 

Most code snippets in this book have been typed at the Julia REPL. This is denoted by the julia> prompt. Such a listing ...