Based on my limited understanding of the documentation here , type stability mainly pertains to the return type. However, if I change the type of a local variable (essentially rebinding) inside a function as follows: g(x) = x + 1.2 function ff() x = 1 x = g(x) return x + 2.3 end and @c…

Rebinding local variable inside function and type stability: does it matter?

lmiq January 29, 2021, 10:23am 4

In that case it won’t hurt, but not doing that is one of the performance tips: Performance Tips · The Julia Language

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