JuliaArrays / JuliaArrays/StaticArrays.jl

Various functions don't have cutoffs for when to stop unrolling

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Description

From https://github.com/JuliaArrays/StaticArrays.jl/issues/430#issuecomment-395977617, e.g.:

julia> using StaticArrays

julia> SA = rand(SMatrix{50,50,Complex{Float64}});

julia> @time vecnorm(SA);
 83.789766 seconds (137.97 M allocations: 3.949 GiB, 1.25% gc time)

There are many more, for example map, mapreduce and broadcast.

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Research direction

Start with the linked StaticArrays.jl issue comment and reproduce the vecnorm example using a 50×50 SMatrix in Julia. Investigate the unrolling behavior of vecnorm, map, mapreduce, and broadcast; done means these functions stop unrolling at a practical cutoff instead of producing the reported excessive runtime and allocations.

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Tech stack
julia
Domain
performance
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
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Needs clarification
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