Are you timing the first execution of the function? Because if so it's
probably reading in and compiling the DataFrames piece. What happens when
you run it for a second time?
On Friday, April 3, 2015 at 8:43:12 AM UTC-7, Andre Bieler wrote:
>
> I have the following (for me) unexpected behavior for an if statement in
> the code below:
> It is not the same If I comment out the line
> data = readdlm("somefile.dat")
> or not. even if the "if-statement" is evaluated as false.
>
> The function takes much longer to execute when the line is not commented
> out, with the if-statement
> evaluated as false. Is it that the function readdlm still imported from
> DataFrames, even though
> that part of the code is never executed?
> (I do get the expected print message of "dont do additional stuff" of
> course...)
>
> thanks
> andre
>
> using DataFrames
>
> function foo()
> doAdditionalStuff = 0
> if (doAdditionalStuff) == 1
> println("do additional stuff")
> data = readdlm("somefile.dat")
> else
> println("dont do additional stuff")
> end
>
> # do regular stuff
>
> end
>
>
