Invokelatest() makes code run slower

[mbauman]

"running in world age X, while current world is Y" errors

No, simply defining the same function twice wouldn’t cause this — you can try it by modifying the task example I have above. In your case, the problem is likely the same as the simpler example in the documentation: Redefining Methods. You’re evaluating code and defining new methods and then trying to call those new methods, but the code that is doing that is still frozen in the old world from when it started running. Yes, invokelatest is definitely slower. It has to emit very pessimized …