Is it possible for sample to not return vectors?

[drelatgithub]

Currently, using sample function with many samples returns a vector with all the sample results. I might be overlooking the documents, but I'm looking for a way to "consume" each sample result in-place without building the resulting vector, while still enjoying the benefit of preprocessing. My use case is similar to the following:

nitems = 100
nsamples = 10000
w = Weights(rand(nitems))
counts = zeros(nitems)

# Is it possible to not generate the 10000-element intermediate vector?
for eachsample in sample(1:nitems, w, nsamples)
    counts[eachsample] += 1
end

# Alternatively, this seems not to utilize preprocessing.
for _ in 1:nsamples
    counts[sample(1:nitems, w)] += 1
end

Is there a way to achieve it? Thank you!

[nalimilan]

Please use the Discourse forum for questions, and keep GitHub for bug reports. Thanks!

[drelatgithub]

Sorry about that! I've opened a topic in discourse. Thanks for the time.