Re: [eigen] non-linear optimization test summary

["Claas H. Köhler" <claas.koehler@xxxxxx>]

Hello List!

I was wondering what the status of the non-linear optimisation tests is. 
I found this old thread from 2010, which seems to suggest that the code 
has major issues.

Today I enabled the disabled NonLinearOptimization test routines and 
they still failed. However, I also implemented the failing tests into 
the tester of the original MINPACK routines from netlib, and the results 
are almost identical to the Eigen results.

I guess my question is really, why the tests are disabled instead of 
adapted to the new results, if the MINPACK code (which is the basis for 
the original implementation as far as I understand) produces very 
similar results.

I used gcc-4.6 and gfortran-4.6 to compile.

If anybody is interested in the results, I can post them along with the 
modified code that produced them.

Regards
Claas

2010/6/15 Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>:
>
> Oh wait I know why it must now be looking "better" on the dashboard: I
> un-split the NonLinear test, so instead of 4 separate test failures,
> you now see 1.
>
> I unsplit it because it was split in such a way that all the channels
> were compiling the same code (partly because the subtests weren't
> templated, hence were always compiled !!) making this most very test
> be compiled 16 times.
>
> Benoit