# Suggestion: keeping responses appropriate for the (implicit) category

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-keeping-responses-appropriate-for-the-implicit-category/21345>\
**Category:** Meta Discussion\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [March 1, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-keeping-responses-appropriate-for-the-implicit-category/21345 "2019-03-01T13:22:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![bennedich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bennedich/32/4894_2.png) [@bennedich](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bennedich)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2019, 10:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/suggestion-keeping-responses-appropriate-for-the-implicit-category/21345/3 "2019-03-02T10:00:40Z")

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Good suggestion!

I generally think it’s fine to post “inappropriate” solutions if there’s a tangible advantage to them. It would be silly I think to not even mention a possible 2x speedup because it uses internals (as in [this example of updating a dictionary](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-count-all-unique-character-frequency-in-a-string/19342/16)). I often see newcomers here benchmark Julia code to another language and be disappointed if the performance isn’t the same.

BUT – I agree with you that it’d be a good idea to hold back unless there’s a clear advantage, and above all I think that we could be better at providing proper explanations/warnings for these cases, and not be shy to point this out when we see it in others’ posts.

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