David Widmann
David Widmann
Copied from https://github.com/JuliaStats/Distributions.jl/pull/1874#issuecomment-2191052752: My worry (that was also expressed in issues such as https://github.com/JuliaStats/Distributions.jl/issues/968) is that generally numerical integration is challenging and a fallback might lead to silently incorrect results....
I think we might have to backport also #703.
I opened a new PR which backports additional bug fixes: #712
I'm off until next week and probably won't be able to add a meaningful comment until then.
> Could this cause a slowdown in the vast majority of cases where similar actually assigns stuff? I put it behind an `isbitstype` check, so it should never be hit...
TuringDocs?
> We can drop StaticArrays as a dependency StaticArrays is only a regular dependency on Julia < 1.9, on Julia >= 1.9 it is only a weak dependency.
@mcabbott I fixed the merge conflicts in the GHA workflow and the allocation tests, and made a minor update to the docs - this should be an easy re-review 🙂
This issue can be closed, the problem in PDMats is fixed on the master branch.
See also #51.