On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 4:10:37 PM UTC+1, Jason Merrill wrote: > > Do you find yourself dealing with heterogeneous arrays often? It might be > useful to post some examples where this comes up to the list.
In my Matlab code I use cell arrays (heterogenous) a great deal, and of course normal arrays (homogeneous) too. > Julia compiles specialized versions of functions for the concrete types > they are called with at run time, so you should usually think of the types > in function signatures as documentation/assumption checks rather than a > performance optimization. > Yes, that's exactly what I'm using types in function signatures for - documentation and error checking. > This is in contrast to explicit types used in type declarations or inside > function bodies, which can have important performance effects. > Yes, understood.
