JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit 4cedb5838efd2f7c8695276e1722646350fb3f5c
File: j/sparse.j line 67
By JeffBezanson:

Having all this special-case code for Ranges seems a bit ugly. And actually when I tried `sparse(x,x,x)` it was slower when x was a Range, though I can't explain that yet. What do you get?