{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13459","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13459/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13459/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13459/events","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13459","id":109892312,"number":13459,"title":"make A[:] = x::Number fall back to fill!","user":{"login":"KristofferC","id":1282691,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1282691?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC","html_url":"https://github.com/KristofferC","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-10-05T21:42:39Z","updated_at":"2015-10-06T09:47:31Z","closed_at":null,"pull_request":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/pulls/13459","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13459","diff_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13459.diff","patch_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13459.patch"},"body":"@mbauman mentioned this in https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/julia-users/ub08AnpIutw\r\n\r\n`A[:]` previously fell back to the AbstractArray function.\r\n\r\nBefore there was a performance difference:\r\n```\r\njulia> @time fill!(A, 0.);\r\n  0.007387 seconds (4 allocations: 160 bytes)\r\n\r\njulia> @time A[:] = 0.\r\n  0.010574 seconds (5 allocations: 176 bytes)\r\n```"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/comments/145801666","html_url":"https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/13459#issuecomment-145801666","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13459","id":145801666,"user":{"login":"KristofferC","id":1282691,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1282691?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC","html_url":"https://github.com/KristofferC","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/KristofferC/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-06T09:47:31Z","updated_at":"2015-10-06T09:47:31Z","body":"Close in favour of #13463?"}}