Re: [eigen] New Levenberg Marquardt stuff

[Mark Borgerding <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/07/2012 04:57 PM, Thomas Capricelli wrote:
> Il 07/12/2012 22:17, Sameer Agarwal ha scritto:
> > Ceres is a rather large library, putting it into Eigen is neither
> > practical or a good idea.
> If it has a better LM, and if that LM is based on eigen, it would
> definitely be a great option to move it to eigen, don't you think ? The
> same for the other generic algorithm there might be there.
>
> Thomas


Ugh No!

I don't know anything about Ceres or LM.  I don't have any need for 
them. Which is precisely why I am speaking out against its wholesale 
inclusion.
If it is big, then it should be a separate component. If it is a feature 
that most Eigen users will not need, then doubly so.

I often wish the boost project had put a little more thought into code 
size along the way.  It is 65MB in tar.gz form.  There is a bcp utility 
that is used for selecting subsets of it, but it is not great.