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Summary

  • Fix Downgrade CI failure: mark LazyBufferCache allocation tests as @test_broken on Julia 1.10
  • Fix Documentation CI failure: resolve duplicate and missing docstring references

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Downgrade CI (Julia 1.10) Failure

The _buffer_type type assertion introduced in #157 uses a runtime s == size(x) comparison that cannot be constant-folded by the Julia 1.10 compiler. This causes allocations in LazyBufferCache lookups:

Expression: 0 == @allocated(cache[x])
Evaluated: 0 == 8128

The functionality is correct - it's a performance regression on Julia 1.10 only. Julia 1.11+ optimizes this correctly.

Fix: Mark these allocation tests as @test_broken on Julia 1.10.

Documentation CI Failure

The documentation build was failing due to:

  1. Duplicate get_tmp docs (in both @autodocs and explicitly in internals.md)
  2. Missing docstring for _restructure referenced in internals.md

Fix:

  • Removed duplicate get_tmp entries from internals.md
  • Removed _restructure from internals.md (was causing "no docs found" error)
  • Added docstring to _restructure function (for future documentation if needed)
  • Filter enlargediffcache! from @autodocs to avoid duplicates with internals.md

Test plan

  • Tests pass locally on Julia 1.11
  • Documentation builds locally
  • CI passes on Julia 1.10 (Downgrade workflow)
  • CI passes on Julia 1.11+ (Tests workflow)

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claude and others added 4 commits January 28, 2026 07:14
The _buffer_type type assertion with runtime `s == size(x)` comparison
cannot be constant-folded by the Julia 1.10 compiler, causing allocations
in LazyBufferCache lookups. Mark these allocation tests as @test_broken
on Julia 1.10 since the functionality is correct, just a performance
regression on older Julia versions.

Also fix documentation build errors:
- Remove duplicate get_tmp entries from internals.md (already documented via @autodocs)
- Remove _restructure from internals.md (was missing docstring reference)
- Add docstring to _restructure function
- Filter enlargediffcache! from @autodocs to avoid duplicates

Co-Authored-By: Chris Rackauckas <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>
The alloc_tests.jl also has allocation tests that fail on Julia 1.10
due to the same type assertion optimization issue. Add a helper macro
@test_alloc that uses @test on Julia 1.11+ and @test_broken on 1.10.

Affected tests:
- DiffCache with dual numbers
- FixedSizeDiffCache with first(dual_vec)
- LazyBufferCache (all 4 tests)

Co-Authored-By: Chris Rackauckas <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Chris Rackauckas <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>
Additional allocation tests with get_tmp(cache, first(u_vec)) also
fail on Julia 1.10 due to the same type inference issue. Mark these
as @test_alloc to use @test_broken on 1.10.

Co-Authored-By: Chris Rackauckas <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <[email protected]>
@ChrisRackauckas ChrisRackauckas merged commit 2d4dbe5 into SciML:master Jan 28, 2026
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