Re: [eigen] Custom expression type API stability

[Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I need basically two different expressions:

1. given two vectors:
	cond_vec and choice_vec -> result(i) = choice_vec(i) if cond_vec(i) > 0
									else choice_vec(i+1)
this is rather simple and maybe doable otherwise (and I have already managed 
that using the 3.3 development version, although it's probably ugly)

2. calculate reductions of 3d matrices times 2d matrices (they are not stored 
fully, since they can be calculated fairly easily from e.g. a matrix and a 
vector, or are highly sparse): result(i) = Sum_j,k M_ijk * K_jk (as a full 
reduction) or result(i,j) = Sum_k M_ikj * K_kj
I would like to create some abstraction where I only need to provide a 
function which calculates the elements or row/col of the contraction result.


Cheers,

Dan

On Thursday 18 February 2016 12:10:07 Gael Guennebaud wrote:
> Indeed, writing custom expressions still requires to play with
> Eigen::internal, meaning that it is subject to change in the future. As you
> noticed, the current 3.2 way is different than the future 3.3 way. If you
> tell us a bit more about your need for a custom expression we might be able
> to guide you towards the best approach. Maybe you don't need a new one at
> all, maybe ReturnByValue if good for, etc.
> 
> cheers,
> gael
> 
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:06 AM, Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Folks,
> > 
> > I have a question concerning adding custom expression types as described
> > here:
> > http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox-devel/TopicNewExpressionType.html . I am
> > currently developing a program that would require some custom expression
> > types
> > to be efficient.
> > Is the way how they are implemented expected to change during the next
> > versions? Since I could not compile the example with Eigen 3.2.7 and
> > 3.2.8,
> > only with the latest snapshot from mercurial.
> > 
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Dan