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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2022.6
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-167525
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/16752/
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Marcelino, Miguel ; Leitão, António Menezes

Extending PyJL - Transpiling Python Libraries to Julia

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Abstract

Many high-level programming languages have emerged in recent years. Julia is one of these languages, claiming to offer the speed of C, the macro capabilities of Lisp, and the user-friendliness of Python. Julia’s syntax is one of its major strengths, making it ideal for scientific and numerical computing. Furthermore, Julia’s high-performance on modern hardware makes it an appealing alternative to Python. However, Python has a considerable advantage over Julia: its extensive library set. There have been efforts to make Python libraries available to Julia either through Foreign Function Interfaces (FFI’s), or through manual translation, but both have their tradeoffs: FFI’s do not take advantage of Julia’s performance, as they call Python’s Virtual Machine, and manual translation is demanding and time-consuming. To address these issues and bridge the gap between the two languages, we propose PyJL, a transpilation tool that converts Python source-code to human-readable Julia source-code. Although the development of PyJL is still at an early stage, our preliminary results reveal that the generated code follows the pragmatics of Julia and is capable of high performance.

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@InProceedings{marcelino_et_al:OASIcs.SLATE.2022.6,
  author =	{Marcelino, Miguel and Leit\~{a}o, Ant\'{o}nio Menezes},
  title =	{{Extending PyJL - Transpiling Python Libraries to Julia}},
  booktitle =	{11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:14},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-245-7},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2022},
  volume =	{104},
  editor =	{Cordeiro, Jo\~{a}o and Pereira, Maria Jo\~{a}o and Rodrigues, Nuno F. and Pais, Sebasti\~{a}o},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16752},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-167525},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2022.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: Source-to-Source Compiler, Automatic Transpilation, Library Translation, Python, Julia}
}

Keywords: Source-to-Source Compiler, Automatic Transpilation, Library Translation, Python, Julia
Collection: 11th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2022)
Issue Date: 2022
Date of publication: 27.07.2022
Supplementary Material: Software (Source Code): https://github.com/MiguelMarcelino/pyjl_translations

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