On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Cedric St-Jean <cedric.stj...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have two very similar functions that differ in only which function they > call > > function search_suspects_forward(...) > ... > searchsortedfirst(...) > end > > function search_suspects_backward(...) > ... > searchsortedlast(...) > end > > function foo() > search_suspects_forward(...) > end > > Naturally, I'd like to refactor the common code > > function search_suspects(..., search_fun::Function) > ... > search_fun(...) > end > > search_suspects_foward(...) = search_suspects(..., searchsortedfirst) > ... > > But Julia doesn't specialize search_suspects based on search_fun (at least > on 0.4), which is a missed optimization opportunity. Is there any way to do > that? I could turn `search_fun` into a functor, but that kinda sucks (is > there a way to do that automatically?) If I understand inlining heuristics > correctly, I would expect that `search_suspects_forward`, being a short > function, will be inlined into `foo`, but what I want is for > `search_suspects` to be inlined into `search_suspects_forward`. Are there > ways of communicating that to the compiler? Is there a @notinline?
Functor is the only way on 0.4. This is done automatically on 0.5.
