At present, the broadcast in julia is always lazy, no matter the inputs’ axes. I think, at least for numeric calcution, if both the input(s) and output are scalar, we could perform the calculation immediately, as the storage of Intermediate variable is always negligible. In other words we might mer…

Should scalar calculation in Broadcast be "lazy"?

Sukera August 10, 2020, 3:22pm 13

Oh wow, I did not know about that! I might begin to use @. then

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