I often have to “categorise” a vector of struct elements by a specific field and I wanted to get rid of some duplicated logic and generalise the categorisation, however I hit the penalty of runtime (dynamic) lookup of the field type, which I need to create the output dictionary. I though the inferen…

It should help if you make the compiler compile functions for every fieldname, and it wont for Symbol. But you can force multiple versions using Val{:x}(). Have a wrapper function that will constant propagate the symbol (i.e. @inline), then wrap it with Val and call the method again. Oh I see you t…

Inference on field types?

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Benny January 18, 2021, 12:47am 11

I looked it up, Symbol and Tuples of Symbols are hard-coded exceptions to the isbitstype parameter rule, very interesting.

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Inference on field types?

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