> As in there should be no performance penalty at all in the vast majority of cases :)
Any notable exception? On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 4:24:43 PM UTC-4, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > As in there should be no performance penalty at all in the vast majority > of cases :) > > On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 4:18 PM, John Myles White <johnmyl...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Specialization of higher-order functions should be much improved in Julia >> 0.5. >> >> On Friday, June 17, 2016 at 1:10:24 PM UTC-7, Douglas Bates wrote: >>> >>> I am writing a simulation function that loops over simulating a data set >>> and fitting multiple statistical models to the data. The exact form of the >>> output will depend on which characteristics of the fitted models I wish to >>> preserve. My inclination is to pass a callback function to take the set of >>> models after each iteration and extract and save the characteristics of >>> interest. >>> >>> However, I have a vague recollection that passing a function as an >>> argument to another function was discouraged. I believe it made type >>> inference awkward. Was that ever the case and, if so, is still the case? >>> >> >
