String is not a concrete type. Consider ASCIIString or UTF8String.
But if you don't need the flexibility of a Dict, a composite type will be a
huge improvement.
--Tim
On Sunday, September 20, 2015 03:55:43 PM Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Hi Steven,
>
> I am not the OP, I am trying to help the OP with his code. Anyway, the
> first thing I did was replace Dict{Any,Any} by the more explicit
> Dict{String,Float64} but that didn't help. I did not think to try a
> composite type. I might try that later. It would be interesting to figure
> out why the OP's code is so much slower in Julia.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
>
> On 20 September 2015 at 15:20, Steven G. Johnson <[email protected]>
>
> wrote:
> > Daniel, you are still using a Dict of params, which kills type inference.
> > Pass parameters directly or put them in (typed) fields of a composite
> > type.
> >
> > (On the other hand, common misconception: there is no performance need to
> > declare the types of function arguments.)
