[julia-users] Re: Julia allocates huge amounts of memory in for loops which should overwrite scalars

[Steven G. Johnson]

function foo(n)
    m = 0.0
    for i=1:n
          r= rand()-.05
          m=max(m,abs(r))
    end
    return m
end
@time foo(1000000)
elapsed time: 0.005688064 seconds (96 bytes allocated)