Re: [eigen] Remaining beta3 blockers

[Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>]

2010/11/23 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>:
> 2010/11/23 Gael Guennebaud <gael.guennebaud@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>>       51: no malloc in fixed-size products
>>>
>>> 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.... :(
>>
>> 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
>>>
>>> Gael?
>>
>> 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/ ?

Moreover, the sparse_basic test has been failing to compile for a
while. It's preventing one from building the rest of the tests. I'll
have a look asap.

Benoit

>
>>>       100: Finalize the array-as-scalar feature
>>>
>>> Gael ?
>>
>> 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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>> gael
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