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From 04 Apr 2024 to 03 May 2024
02 May 2024
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19:58 CoCoALib Feature #1815: JSON and UUID
- Another point to bear in mind is the licence of any library.
We already use BOOST in CoCoA-5, but I'm not sure wheth... -
- I note the following link(s):
* *@https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_85_0/libs/json/doc/html/json/comparison.html@*
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- We should also decide which goals we have.
I'm expecting in Berlin to spend much of the time discussing and planni... -
- Antony in Berlin says that they use *@rapidJSON@*; I did not enquire about UUIDs -- we can use an interim, makeshift ...
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- Investigate including a library for serializing and deserializing JSON encodings.
This includes having the ability t...
29 Apr 2024
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- It seems that we have several implementations: some in C++, and some in CoCoA-5.
The C++ versions ought to be quicke...
26 Apr 2024
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- Nico Mexis sent the following by email (a few days ago):...
25 Apr 2024
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- This is for *JOHN* Knuckle down and do it!
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- *Yes!* We really should implement this, and preferably soon.
Maybe we can also include an auto conversion to @vecto... -
- This is one of those _mindless_ tasks to be done when the brain is taking a nap...
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- What is the status of this issue?
Not so long ago I wrote a similar class for 64-bitters where the modulus is about ... -
- As hinted in the main description, we should also try to limit the amount of output (unless it is important to be abl...
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- Maybe just *@myReset@*? Or is that too vague? It is short, which I like.
So far we have been using @myPrepareForNe...
24 Apr 2024
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- I have just wasted quite a bit of time thus evening rediscovering this phenomenon... sigh!
I should consider making ...
23 Apr 2024
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- A quick look on StackOverflow found a discussion which claims that the C++ standard says that advancing an iterator b...
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- I created a memory leak in the gcd function for multivariate polynomials over a finite field. I have a first fix, an...
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- While it might give slightly better performance to use @(unsigned) long long@ in some internal chinese-remaindering f...
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- What I meant to say in comment 9 above is: if we choose a design for iterators where @operator*@ never throws then we...
22 Apr 2024
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22:39 CoCoALib Design #1572: Use noexcept
- According to the C++ standard, a function is either not-throwing or potentially-throwing. The ...
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- Another question is about @operator*@ for iterators: if an error is thrown when "beyond the end" then it cannot be @n...
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- This has been mostly done. Comment 13 above is a good strategy.
Current state is good enough, so closing. -
- There are 2 designs for @MachineInt@
# internal repr is @unsigned long@ and an extra bit to indicate that the true v... -
- We should try to reduce the number of warnings (esp. when compiling in "debug" mode).
Then we can consider attribute... -
- If iterator operators can throw then they cannot be @noexcept@ (obviously!). See issue #1572
Not sure how important... -
- Some files still need tp be updated: I think the "morse" files need to be updated.
The "JB" files look to scary to t... -
- * @DynamicBitset@ uses iterators explicitly; maybe switch to @auto@?
* possibly review @TmpJB...@ code too?
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- The @configure@ script was changed some time ago; now it is clear which options are relevant to CoCoALib and which to...
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- This has effectively been resolved by issue #1661. The solution there assumes **either 64-bit or 32-bit @long@**; ot...
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- Thanks to Nico for the suggestion about @#pragma@. I read also the discussion about its pros and cons -- it is not c...
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- I have not found any suitable macro in the gfanlib sources (v.0.6.2).
Without Anders's help we cannot really do much... -
- The current impl is good enough. It behaves well enough on the two "big" test examples listed above. If we really w...
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- I have adopted the simple solution of changing the documentation: previously it said nothing about the order of the f...
19 Apr 2024
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- @random@ is called harmlessly in @exbugs.cocoa5@.
We should check *@ErrMesg.cocoa5@* and *@test-ApproxSolve.cocoa5@*... -
18 Apr 2024
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16:38 CoCoALib Feature #937: LinDepMill: Mill for linear dependencies
- LinDepMill could also be used by MakeTermOrdMat.
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- I have implemented the (hidden but present) function ShapeLemma which returns the whole lex-GB when the MinPoly has m...
16 Apr 2024
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- This might be another example where "final clean up" is not instant:...
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- I have just removed @long long@ from @MachineInt@ (and had to change one call in @BigIntOps.C@)
There are actually *... -
- Indices into matrices (and other indexable objects, _e.g._ @ModuleElem@?) must be non-negative.
As already noted ind...
15 Apr 2024
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- I think we are close to a decision: not to use @(unsigned) long long@ except perhaps internally.
I don't regard it a... -
- Winfried Bruns sent the following response by email:...
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- My current thoughts are that we should avoid using LL/ULL in any (normal) user interfaces, but we may use them intern...
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- Anna thinks she has found the cause. She'll do some more tests to confirm; then we hope to fix it.
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- *Anna* plans to investigate today
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- I am quite tempted just to try changing the automatic conversion, but this should probably also be done with some oth...
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- I think we need a new central issue regard possible redesign of @MachineInt@
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- I wonder if this change should be reconsidered in light of the discussion in #1804?
14 Apr 2024
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- To be honest, I would also rather keep support for 32-bit platforms instead of using e.g., ...
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- The more I think about making a "typedef", the less I am convinced. For convenience I shall suppose it is called *@C...
13 Apr 2024
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- > Personally I was hoping to drop support for 32-bit platforms, but long on MinGW is only 32-bits.
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- Nico sent the following comment by email:...
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- Here is a list of CPP symbols beginning with *@COCOA_@*
* @COCOA_ULONG2LONG@
* @COCOA_ULONGLONG2LONGLONG@
* @COCOA...
12 Apr 2024
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- I have just checked-in the changes. They should be in the next "internal" release. Hope to resolve #1814 before mak...
10 Apr 2024
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- Ulrich von der Ohe wrote:
> @test-RadicalMembership1.C@ did not change from 0.99824 to 0.99850. Do you think the 20-...
09 Apr 2024
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23:31 CoCoALib Support #1814: Ensure tests do not need too much RAM
- John Abbott wrote:
> * there was a bug in @IsInRadical@ which meant that it always returned @true@ IIRC
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- I'm not sure if I am recalling correctly the time-line...
* there was a bug in @IsInRadical@ which meant that it alw... -
- John Abbott wrote:
> I'm not surprised by the change in resources needed for @test-RadicalMembership1.C@ since the t... -
- I am a bit concerned that *@long long@* may incur unnecessary overhead on some platforms.
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- John Abbott wrote:
> Did we use a workaround?
The workaround introduced in #1662#note-4 is indeed in effect in ne...
08 Apr 2024
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- My idea did not produce much gain (neither regarding time nor memory requirement).
There's a loop somewhere which is... -
- It is not clear to me why @test-SparsePolyRing1-b.C@ should have become slower by a factor of 2.
I'm not surprised b... -
- I realize that this issue was intended to be about something else. Feel free to move my posts as you see fit -- sorry...
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- I have advanced this issue to *resolved* since it seems to be OK now -- thanks Nico for the clarification!
Anna is a... -
- I am using txt2tags 3.9 and it works fine on my end as well. This issue was only related to txt2tags 2.7-dev (commits...
07 Apr 2024
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- The tests @test-RadicalMembership1@ and @test-SparsePolyRing2@ are the only ones where memory usage considerably wors...
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- Strictly this is not CoCoALib but CoCoA-5.
I ran the CoCoA-5 tests with about 0.5GiB memory: there was 1 failure, na... -
- Assuming that @ulimit -v@ does what I think/hope it does, I confirm that the only test to fail with a limit of @25000...
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- On my linux box the command *@ulimit -v 1048576@* will limit memory use to 1GiB (which seems a reasonable limit to me...
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- Ulrich also reported that *@test-SparsePolyRing2@* now needs about 3GiB of RAM at some point. That is rather a lot!
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- I think the slow down may be due to a change in code in radical (of ideals)" I believe we now speculatively try to co...
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- Ulrich reports by email that the test *@test-SparsePolyRing2@* has become significantly slower; also perhaps @test-Sp...
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- *AnnA* can you check whether this issue can now be closed?
Ulrich reports that 0.99850 is OK with txt2tags-2.6; I s... -
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- Ah, oops!
Since Anna did not object, I have just made the change hinted at in my comment 8 above. This should avoid...
06 Apr 2024
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- John Abbott wrote:
> What do you think?
I think it would be preferable to have deterministic output (i.e. literal... -
- The files released as 0.99850 work for me with txt2tags 2.6 (the latest stable 2.x version) as well as with txt2tags ...
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