Yes, I see similar results. That’s the difference between lazy (@cast) and eager (invert) operations.
I guess SplitApplyCombine could get a lazy invertview function if someone is interested and makes a PR. For now, there are splitdimsview + combinedimsview:
julia> splitdimsview(combinedimsview(xss), 1) == invert(xss)
true
julia> @btime splitdimsview(combinedimsview($xss), 1)
1.695 ns (0 allocations: 0 bytes)
Another 20000 times faster than @cast (: