On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 21:51:28 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
A few things I'd really like to hear back on, if anyone can give them a go:
... obviously I have tested the above myself, but "Works for me" is not a valid quality control strategy ;-) The other thing I'd really like to know about is how the effectiveness of stuff like sample and cover is affected by the transition to classes. For RNGs I doubt it will be much, because one tends to allocate and initialize the RNG quite high-up in the application and then pass it to the internals. By contrast something like sample() might well be called extensively in various inner loops of the program, and the fact that each call involves a class being allocated could be problematic in terms of triggering the GC.
