Re: [eigen] Custom expression type API stability

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On Friday 19 February 2016 08:54:21 Gael Guennebaud wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:07 AM, Dan Čermák <dan.cermak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe a small follow-up to that, is it possible to append/prepend a value
> > to
> > (cond_vec>0).select(choice_vec.head(n-1), choice_vec.tail(n-1)) ? I want
> > to
> > extend this vector of length n-1 to length n, but not create an additional
> > vector along the way, so not something like this:
> > new_vec << 1, (cond_vec>0).select(choice_vec.head(n-1),
> > choice_vec.tail(n-1))
> > 
> > Actually its a tad more complicated than that, since I want to take the
> > choice
> > result, put it into head(n-1) add subtract it from tail(n-1) and add
> > values to
> > the first and last element (while doing the same again with another
> > expression).
> > Is there an elegant/efficient way how to do this? Or would it be best to
> > give
> > the function a reference to a result vector where to write the values
> > into?
> 
> such manipulations cannot be efficiently abstracted through
> coefficient-wise expressions (you would need extra branches within the
> evaluation of a single coeff), so the best is to write your own function
> doing the the work inplace.
> 
> gael

That seems doable, thanks for your help. And thanks for the eigen library, 
it's really awesome!



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