Avoiding runtime dispatch is perhaps the #1 optimization advice in Julia forums. As I understand it, the reason is that when the Julia compiler does a runtime dispatch it does not at compile-time neccesarily know the return type of the function to be called. And so, it needs to allocate space for t…

Elimination of (unnecessary) runtime dispatch allocations

Keno April 24, 2024, 10:01pm 6

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