I’m not sure if this has already been observed by someone, but I searched and didn’t find anything. The performance of fill is very slow in 0.7 in comparison to 0.6.2 or an explicit loop. The following results are from 0.7 installed today: julia> @btime fill(0.0,5,5) 814.123 ns (2 allocations: 36…

Performance degradation of `fill` in latest Julia 0.7 Dev?

Seif_Shebl March 11, 2018, 9:16pm 3

I think it may be related to splatting the dimensions, if I replace dims... with explicit m, n in the original definition, I can restore the performance again.

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