I’m trying to compute all third partial derivatives of a function using ForwardDiff, but cannot get it to be type stable and I don’t understand why. Here is a minimal example: using ForwardDiff using StaticArrays function tf( x ) return ( exp( 0.1*x[1] + 0.2*x[2] ) ) end function get_derivati…

Type stability for higher derivatives in ForwardDiff

longemen3000 August 19, 2021, 10:07pm 3

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