Re: [julia-users] Re: Is passing a function as an argument discouraged?

2016-06-17 Thread Cedric St-Jean
> As in there should be no performance penalty at all in the vast majority of cases :) Any notable exception? On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 4:24:43 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > As in there should be no performance penalty at all in the vast majority > of cases :) > > On Fri, Jun 17,

Re: [julia-users] Re: Is passing a function as an argument discouraged?

2016-06-17 Thread Douglas Bates
On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 3:24:43 PM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > As in there should be no performance penalty at all in the vast majority > of cases :) > Great news! Thanks. > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 4:18 PM, John Myles White > wrote: > >> Specialization of

Re: [julia-users] Re: Is passing a function as an argument discouraged?

2016-06-17 Thread Stefan Karpinski
As in there should be no performance penalty at all in the vast majority of cases :) On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 4:18 PM, John Myles White wrote: > Specialization of higher-order functions should be much improved in Julia > 0.5. > > On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 1:10:24 PM

[julia-users] Re: Is passing a function as an argument discouraged?

2016-06-17 Thread John Myles White
Specialization of higher-order functions should be much improved in Julia 0.5. On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 1:10:24 PM UTC-7, Douglas Bates wrote: > > I am writing a simulation function that loops over simulating a data set > and fitting multiple statistical models to the data. The exact form