Hi folks, today I found a strange behavior that eludes my understanding. Would someone please tell me where the allocations are coming from in this example? I am probably overlooking something but I have been staring at this snippet for far longer now than I’d like to admit and cannot figure it out…

Could it just be a missing type annotation on Vararg? Performance Tips · The Julia Language Documentation for The Julia Language. EDIT: yes, that’s it function multinomial_fast(a, vals::Vararg{Int,N}) where N s = a ret = 1.0 for v in vals s += v ret…

Spooky allocations - linked to Varargs?

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mikmoore November 7, 2024, 4:31pm 9

Hobby horse plug: Be less aware of when Julia avoids specializing? and #51423.

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Spooky allocations - linked to Varargs?

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