As a total newbie I wonder about the following issue concerning pre-allocated return arguments. Imagine I have a function which is called a huge number of times which takes as input a vector and a scalar, manipulates them and returns the modified vector and scalar to the caller. This can be done wit…

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[image] Pier: in f90 one can use intent(in) / intent (out) / intent (inout) to clearly identify what happens to subroutine arguments without having to look at the subroutine’s contents, and now you know which language I normally use… In full generality, I don’t think you can do this in julia. …

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[image] foobar_lv2: The extra allocations are very small: They allocate space for the tuple of pointers (to v and s). This is the key point. @Pier : if you just don’t use them (eg just call rettest(v, s) and ignore returned values), I think that even that is elided. But perhaps it would be be…

Pre-allocated return arguments

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Tamas_Papp March 8, 2018, 1:48pm 2

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Pre-allocated return arguments

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