IArrays
This is a prototype/proposal for more structured mutable array semantics in Julia, which is more easily compatible with AD and other program transformations.
IArrays can largely be used as normal arrays, except that they are immutable.
julia> xs = IArray(rand(3, 3))
3×3 IArray{Float64,2}:
0.59274 0.76084 0.605007
0.353013 0.773034 0.325377
0.642339 0.237374 0.421283
julia> xs*xs
3×3 Array{Float64,2}:
1.00855 1.18275 0.86105
0.691138 0.943404 0.602178
0.735142 0.772217 0.643335Limitations:
- Likely needs some (reasonably simple) compiler support to be remotely efficient.
- i.e. immutable heap-allocated buffers + escape analysis
- No GPU support yet
- i.e. immutable heap-allocated GPU buffers