Please ignore. Didn’t realize the 2x will be a UInt and not UInt8.
julia> @benchmark map(x -> UInt8(2x), $arr)
BenchmarkTools.Trial:
memory estimate: 1.00 MiB
allocs estimate: 3
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minimum time: 936.873 μs (0.00% GC)
median time: 951.316 μs (0.00% GC)
mean time: 978.969 μs (1.52% GC)
maximum time: 1.825 ms (0.00% GC)
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samples: 5101
evals/sample: 1
This fixes the issue.