Hopefully Jeff will chime in (or someone else with the required expertise), but I’ve heard Jeff warn against splatting tuples lots of times.
— John On Jan 4, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Milan Bouchet-Valat <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like propose you a small game about performance. In the following gist, I > provide three very similar short functions; the first one allocates much more > memory and is much slower than the two others. Can someone find an > explanation? ;-) > > https://gist.github.com/nalimilan/8261056 > > The real-world scenario is again building a frequency table. I discovered > that when doing a = zeros(Int, dims) I really had to make dim a tuple rather > than an array, which forces me to use two versions of the same data, one in > each type > > Thanks for the help!
