Re: [eigen] Remaining beta3 blockers

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2010/11/23 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>       51: no malloc in fixed-size products
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>> Gael, are you looking at it? If needed I'm OK to have it block only 3.0 final.
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> This one is a quite big challenge because it is tightly coupled with
> multi-threading. Basically, fixing it before having find a good and
> scalable solution to parallelize all products with less as possible
> code redundancy means doing the work twice.... :(
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> Currently, not that general matrix-matrix and matrix-vector products
> are already ok with respect to no malloc for fixed-sizes. Only special
> products have yet to be fixed.

Cool, but I don't really understand why this should be related at all
to multithreading: we don't want any multithreading anyway for fixed
sizes (nor do we want cache-friendliness nor anything fancy)

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>>       53: Sparse - API stability for basic features
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>> Gael?
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> I'm think it is more reasonable to postponed it for 3.1 since I'm
> still not really convinced by my current choices.

Then move Sparse to unsupported/ ?

>>       100: Finalize the array-as-scalar feature
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>> Gael ?
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> This one would make a good "junior" jog, so if someone want to step
> by? Otherwise I'll do it, np.

Maybe it's time to start marking junior bugs as such. Feel free to
create a keyword for that.
http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/bz/editkeywords.cgi

Cheers,
Benoit

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