Efficient reflection on structs

[lmiq]

A little bit offtopic, but you seem to be someone that will like to read these comments, as you seem to have interest in a deeper understanding and use of Julia:

Julia's applicable context is getting narrower over time?

That means you can do tricks that you just can’t do in a “higher” level language. Or you may be able to do but you have to tell the compiler “shut up I know what I’m doing.” This just isn’t true. Yes, Julia provides you with protections by default, but when the compiler can convince itself they aren’t necessary, they’re silently dropped. Here’s a case where I’ve not told the compiler @inbounds: julia> function mysum(A) s = zero(eltype(A)) for a in A s += …