I've encountered this too – it might make sense to zero out the grown memory. Of course there's the whole "to zero out uninitialized memory or not" discussion: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/9147. I feel like this falls into that same category of questions.
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 3:59 PM, Josh Langsfeld <jdla...@gmail.com> wrote: > You could do 'append!(vec, zeros(i-n))'. > > > On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 3:32:56 PM UTC-4, Cameron McBride wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> What's the best julian way to do the following: >> >> function vecadd!(vec, i, v) >> n = length(vec) >> if n < i >> resize!(vec, i) >> vec[n+1:i] = 0.0 >> end >> vec[i] += v >> end >> >> This seems somewhat typical for a growing array that's not just >> incremental (i.e. not just a push!() operation), so I feel like I missed >> something. Better suggestions? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Cameron >> >
