Thank you all for your comments so far, they mostly align with the way I've
been thinking about this.
Mauro, I do not quite understand what you're saying about densely packed
arrays, could you explain a bit more?
Thanks,
Chris
On Tuesday, March 3, 2015 at 11:41:53 AM UTC-5, Mauro wrote:
>
> > I believe if all your type fields are concrete (which they are in the
> case
> > of Float64), the performance should be the same as using
> Vector{Float64}.
> > This is really nice since you get to use code that is much more
> > understandable like state.x instead of state[1] for no penalty.
>
> I think to get densely packed array the type needs to be immutable:
>
> immutable StateVec
> x::Float64
> y::Float64
> z::Float64
> end
>
> Otherwise it will be an array of pointers.
>
