This depends on the particulars of your code. If you can post the function, we can take a look. You can also investigate yourself using the @code_llvm and @code_native macros.
> On Oct 2, 2014, at 8:47 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I have written a bit of code that performs a couple of thousand loops in > which some variables have to be squared or cubed. > As per Performance Tips - Tweaks I wrote these as x*x instead of x^2, but to > my surprise I found that my code is actually > slower (one iteration taking 12.7 instead of 11.7 seconds on average), not > faster! > > Is this a peculiarity of my problem or does this tweak refer to a previous > release of Julia and is outdated? > > (I'm working on Julia 0.3.0)
