Re: [eigen] Matrix assignment

[Benoît Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot !

Benoit

On Friday 24 October 2008 23:44:12 Gael Guennebaud wrote:
> this one is done:
>
> SVN commit 875595 by ggael:
>
> As discussed on ML:
>  * remove the automatic resizing feature of operator =
>  * add function Matrix::set() to be used when the previous behavior is
> wanted * the default constructor of dynamic-size matrices now creates a
> "null" matrix (data=0, rows = cols = 0) instead of a 1x1 matrix
>  * fix UnixX typos ;)
>
> cheers,
> gael.
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:58 PM, Gael Guennebaud
>
> <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Benoît Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> >> Pretty good idea!
> >>
> >> We'll just need to make clear in the docs: "if you use the default
> >> Matrix() constructor for a dynamic-size matrix, then you need to set()
> >> this matrix before doing anything else with it".
> >>
> >> Seems reasonable to me, and i like the idea of avoiding all that
> >> overhead in dynamic matrix assignment; even if it was negligible in
> >> terms of time, it generated code, for every different expression type we
> >> assigned, which could be non-negligible.
> >
> > make sense to me too.
> >
> > gael.



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