[Feature request] Code generation

[fdevinc]

Thanks for this great library! Could you add a code generation functionality to maximize runtime efficiency? Would it be hard to implement?

[allanleal]

Hi @fdevinc , thanks for your feedback. autodiff tends to be expanded with capabilities that I need in my main research project for modeling chemical processes and reactions (https://reaktoro.org). Unfortunately, I don't see this use case (code generation) being applied there, so this would have to be provided by some external contributor. Also, depending on your use case, the overhead coming from autodiff would be insignificant.

[fdevinc]

Thanks a lot for your reply. Code generation is especially useful for optimal control applications: I hope you or a collaborator will consider adding it in the future! You say that the overhead might be insignificant; does your library reduce the number of operations?