Many differentiation techniques can calculate primal values and multiple orders of
derivatives simultaneously. In other words, there are techniques for computing f(x)
,
∇f(x)
and H(f(x))
in one fell swoop!
For this purpose, DiffResults provides the DiffResult
type, which can be passed
to in-place differentiation methods instead of an output buffer. The method
then loads all computed results into the given DiffResult
, which the user
can then query afterwards.