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From 03 Oct 2020 to 01 Nov 2020
31 Oct 2020
- 09:04 Design #1529 (Closed): INPUT questions
- I have some questions about what inputs should be accepted.
*(1)* when reading a @BigRat@ we accept <Integer-liter...
30 Oct 2020
- 20:20 Design #1523: Input fns: action when when istream is in bad state?
- Checked in, but not @symbol.C@.
- 19:54 Design #1523: Input fns: action when when istream is in bad state?
- The function @symbol::myInput@ reports an error by setting the channel state (@failbit@) rather than throwing an exce...
- 19:46 Design #1523 (Resolved): Input fns: action when when istream is in bad state?
- I have added checks to all input fns so that an exception is thrown if the istream is not in a good state when called...
- 19:24 Design #1523 (In Progress): Input fns: action when when istream is in bad state?
- After discussion with Anna, we have decided that it is more helpful if an exception is thrown if the @istream@ is not...
- 15:59 Slug #1518: SLUG: Printing PPs with many indets
- Anna suggest using a virtual fn for printing which is specialized in PPMs which can have big exps.
JAA will think ... - 15:33 Design #601 (In Progress): LongRange: in which file should it be declared/defined?
- Anna is uneasy about making a header file for just a single function.
Ideally, there could be some other similar fun... - 15:19 Support #861 (Feedback): Janet basis code: TmpJB files give some problems with C++11 (using CLANG/LLVM)
- Anna says it compiled cleanly now.
JAA: must remove the commented out code.
- 15:15 Design #1528 (Closed): MacOS compilation with clang
- Try to clean out clang compilation
- 14:51 Bug #1484: ker bug (quotientinghom for R/ideal())
- For me: test, and add CoCoALib tests
- 11:08 Support #1494 (Closed): Normaliz 3.8.9
29 Oct 2020
- 21:51 Slug #1170 (Closed): SmoothFactor: slow when a factor is found
- The current impl is acceptable for the time being; out efforts need to be directed elsewhere.
Closing.
- 21:48 Design #1279 (Closed): Tidy up code for matrix determinant
- The current version is acceptable; it could be made better, but there are plenty of other more important issues (at t...
- 21:44 Design #1463 (Closed): SmoothFactor: use FactorMultiplicity
- 21:30 Design #1463: SmoothFactor: use FactorMultiplicity
- I have fixed the bug: part of the code incorrectly assumed that the base was a prime number... ooops! (probably an o...
- 15:13 Design #1463: SmoothFactor: use FactorMultiplicity
- @FactorMultiplicity(3^39,factorial(21))@ goes into infinite loop :-/
It gets worse...
@FactorMultiplicity(9, fact... - 15:10 Design #1463: SmoothFactor: use FactorMultiplicity
- Oh no! I have hit a bug:...
- 21:42 Support #1196 (Closed): Split MatrixOps
- The current situation is acceptable. Further splitting might be a good idea at some point, but it is not so importan...
- 21:36 Feature #1436 (Closed): Flatten for a matrix
- 15:01 Design #1460 (Closed): Name of TensorMat; change to KroneckerProd?
- This has been in feedback for a month or so. CLosing:
Conclusion: fn name changed @KroneckerProd@, impl creates n... - 14:52 Slug #1518: SLUG: Printing PPs with many indets
- Here is a guess as to why the observed times are as they are:
with @myBigExponents@ the ctor for @BigInt@ is called ... - 14:47 Design #601: LongRange: in which file should it be declared/defined?
- What about *@utils-LongRange@*?
This name should also make it clear why the file is included.
- 14:43 Slug #1517 (In Progress): RandomLinearForm
- The empirical complexity appears to be quadratic. Here is my test:...
- 14:26 Support #861: Janet basis code: TmpJB files give some problems with C++11 (using CLANG/LLVM)
- Since we are no longer guaranteeing pre-C++11 compatibility, we can remove from Mario's code all @#if@ trickery relat...
- 13:46 Design #1465: mul(MAT,MAT,MAT)
- Perhaps it could make sense to have a version of *@mul(mat,mat,mat)@* which is deliberately not exception safe (but a...
- 13:43 Design #1125: Separate install script for CoCoALib?
- Ideally the installation process should also make available an easy way to uninstall the installed stuff.
We also ... - 13:32 Feature #1349: ideal ctor where given gens are a gbasis
- There are already fns *@IdealOfGBasis@* and *@SetGBasisAsGens@*. Where is the doc for the 2nd fn?
Despite some in... - 10:36 Feature #142: Improve threadsafety
- I propose the following new names:
* *@--allow-non-threadsafe@* for the @configure@ script
* *@CoCoA_ALLOW_NON_THRE...
28 Oct 2020
27 Oct 2020
- 19:17 Feature #645 (In Progress): Automatic mapping of RingElem: user selectable at run-time (GlobalManager?)
- At the moment all fns which allow automatic promotion of ringelems call the function *@AutomaticConversionHom@*.
I... - 18:01 Design #1515 (Rejected): Indets in coeffring are ringelems in coeffring?
- *I am rejecting this because of the example in comment 3 above.*
I have also rejected the duplicate issue #636.
- 15:56 Slug #1518: SLUG: Printing PPs with many indets
- I have just tried again but with @SmallExponent_t@ being @unsigned short@ (previously it was @unsigned int@).
Printi... - 15:21 Slug #1518: SLUG: Printing PPs with many indets
- I have just repeated the experiment, but in CoCoALib. This is the test program:...
- 15:26 Design #1085: Fns with "OUT" args: should they give ERR::MixedRings?
- This issue is a generalized version of issue #1500 (which itself is concerned with the example in comment 1 of this i...
- 10:34 Feature #142: Improve threadsafety
- I changed @SmartPtrIRC@ so that an @std::atomic<std::size_t>@ is used for the ref count instead of @std::size_t@.
I ...
26 Oct 2020
- 21:38 Feature #1483 (Closed): IsPowerOf2 for rationals
- 21:37 Feature #1457 (Closed): Make SmoothFactor interruptible
- 20:20 Slug #1518: SLUG: Printing PPs with many indets
- I have just tried modifying the impl (@PPMonoid.C@ around lines 215--230, @PPMonoidBase::myOutput@).
The modified ve... - 20:06 Slug #1518: SLUG: Printing PPs with many indets
- Here is a reference test:...
- 16:59 Slug #1518 (In Progress): SLUG: Printing PPs with many indets
- I propose the following revision to the design:
* *(A)* each @PPMonoid@ has a fn which says whether it can handle on... - 19:49 Bug #1522: SEGV: avoid long linked lists of loaves in MemPools
- I now think it is probably a good idea to abandon the current design with explicit "NextLoaf" pointers (currently @s...
- 17:07 Bug #1522: SEGV: avoid long linked lists of loaves in MemPools
- I think I have found the cause... it is in "invisible code" written by the compiler. The invisible code is correct, ...
- 14:38 Bug #1522: SEGV: avoid long linked lists of loaves in MemPools
- Ahhh! Perhaps I should have guessed: @valgrind@ reports that the problem is *@stack overflow@*.
Now, why are we usi... - 13:53 Bug #1522: SEGV: avoid long linked lists of loaves in MemPools
- I got a SEGV with debugging on and MemPool disabled. Let's see what valgrind says...
BTW it was even slightly faste... - 13:08 Bug #1522 (In Progress): SEGV: avoid long linked lists of loaves in MemPools
- Triggered by the example from issue #1514.
The SEGV seems to arise during destruction at the end of the program!
... - 13:00 Bug #1522 (Closed): SEGV: avoid long linked lists of loaves in MemPools
- See comment 4 below, where I understand the root cause.
Original report:
I get a SEGV reading about 4500 random l... - 19:45 Feature #142: Improve threadsafety
- I now think that it is probably better to default to threadsafe code; the user must configure with "not threadsafe" t...
- 19:41 Design #1523: Input fns: action when when istream is in bad state?
- If we do follow this recommendation, which files must be considered?
* @RingElemInput@
* @BigInt@ and @BigRat@?
* ... - 14:35 Design #1523: Input fns: action when when istream is in bad state?
- At the moment my preference is to recommend (strongly) that input fns immediately check whether the @istream@ is not ...
- 14:31 Design #1523 (Closed): Input fns: action when when istream is in bad state?
- Output fns in CoCoALib check whether the @ostream@ is in a bad state, and if so, return without doing anything more.
... - 12:26 Support #1499 (Closed): factorization: allow zero as exponent?
- *FINAL DECISION:*
* do not allow 0 multiplicity (will throw an exception)
* do not allow factorization objects over... - 12:06 Slug #1521: Unexpectedly slow example with larger types for SmallExponent_t
- See note 5 in issue #1514.
- 12:05 Slug #1521 (New): Unexpectedly slow example with larger types for SmallExponent_t
- I tried Julian's example from issue #1514 using smaller types for @SmallExponent_t@, and found that it was significan...
- 10:38 Bug #1473: isystem not working as expected
- I have done a little checking.
*The GMP header is automatically C++ safe:* it contains all necessary @extern "C"@ ...
23 Oct 2020
- 16:36 Slug #1518: SLUG: Printing PPs with many indets
- According to the profiler: printing 250 polys each with about 500 terms (@RandomLinearForm@ from polyring with 1000 i...
- 16:32 Slug #1518 (In Progress): SLUG: Printing PPs with many indets
- It seems that printing polys in polyrings with many indets is slower than I would like: the example from issue #1514 ...
- 16:22 Slug #1517: RandomLinearForm
- It could be that the problem is simply copying lots of PPs (each occupying 4000 bytes).
Could the memory manager be ... - 16:21 Slug #1517 (Closed): RandomLinearForm
- The profiler tells me that @RandomLinearForm@ spends most (almost all!) of its time in @operator+=@.
If the indets... - 10:57 Design #1500 (Closed): IsDivisible in a field?
- 10:31 Bug #1473: isystem not working as expected
- I wonder if we should be using @extern "C"@ when including the gmp header (but not the gmpxx header). -- *NO!!* (see ...
- 10:07 Bug #1473: isystem not working as expected
- Still problematic...
- 09:01 Design #1515 (In Progress): Indets in coeffring are ringelems in coeffring?
- *I am increasingly convinced that this is not a good idea.* The example in comment 3 is already fairly convincing.
...
22 Oct 2020
- 17:32 Design #1515: Indets in coeffring are ringelems in coeffring?
- This is almost a duplicate of issue #636.
- 17:29 Design #1515: Indets in coeffring are ringelems in coeffring?
- The proposed change might be inconvenient in view of issue #637: the equality test @x = a@ would throw a @MixedRings...
- 17:23 Design #1515 (Rejected): Indets in coeffring are ringelems in coeffring?
- A suggestion (but maybe not a good one).
Now that we have some degree of automatic ringelem conversion, we could say... - 16:55 Feature #222: Printing polynomials - spaces between terms
- Idle for more than 6 years: perhaps because there is no clear answer, and implementation might be tricky :-/
- 16:48 Support #256: Improve doc about ordering/grading for poly rings
- I have just added to @SparsePolyRing.txt@ that the default term ordering is @StdDegRevLex@ (should we give an explic...
21 Oct 2020
- 13:38 Slug #897: SimplestBigRatBetween: why is it so slow?
- I replaced used of @BigRat@ (field @myFrac@) inside @ContFracIter@ by a pair of @BigInt@ values (@myNum@ & @myDen@).
...
20 Oct 2020
- 12:59 Slug #897: SimplestBigRatBetween: why is it so slow?
- Here is the speed test I used:...
- 11:39 Slug #897: SimplestBigRatBetween: why is it so slow?
- I have now put special handling in for reciprocals, and the code runs a bit faster.
Probably the best solution wou...
19 Oct 2020
- 17:38 Slug #897 (In Progress): SimplestBigRatBetween: why is it so slow?
- The profiler suggests that the reciprocal @1/(myFrac-myQuot)@ is surprisingly costly.
I shall modify @operator/@ to ... - 15:22 Slug #897: SimplestBigRatBetween: why is it so slow?
- Why did I give no examples to test this on?
After reading #860, a possible test might be... - 14:48 Feature #1513 (New): Better test for univariate-ness (and better conversion)
- Issue #1118 exhibits a slug due to "stupid" conversion from a sparse multivariate poly to a dense univariate poly.
... - 12:33 Slug #1118 (In Progress): SLUG: factorization of x^9999
- The quadratic behaviour derives from the GCD computation being between *dense* univariate polynomials.
A solution ... - 12:05 Slug #1118: SLUG: factorization of x^9999
- I confirm that computation time increases quadratically (why?)
Also current (2020-10-19) speed is about the same as ...
14 Oct 2020
- 21:51 Design #1511 (Closed): Use C++14 constexpr
- Scott Meyers recommends using @constexpr@ where (reasonably) possible.
- 21:49 Feature #1488: BuiltIn Interreduce-Function
- I have commented out @interreduce@.
I have renamed the files to @SparsePolyOps-interreduced@.
*NOT YET DOCUMENTED... - 21:48 Support #1510 (New): Documentation for SparsePolyOps?
- Where should the doc for fns in @SparsePolyOps-*@ files go?
The current organization is inconsistent :-(
- 21:38 Support #1499 (Resolved): factorization: allow zero as exponent?
- I have implemented as decided (_i.e._ mults must be positive)... effectively we are rejecting the original proposal.
... - 11:17 Support #1499: factorization: allow zero as exponent?
- I now prefer not to allow 0 as a multiplicity because it could be confusing: _e.g._ someone might call @myAppend(fac,...
- 21:21 Design #1500 (Feedback): IsDivisible in a field?
- There are now 20 different @IsDivisible@ functions (half of them are actually @IsDivisible_AllowFields@).
I have m... - 20:21 Design #1500: IsDivisible in a field?
- Oh wow! There are a lot more @IsDivisible@ finctions than I thought... :-(
*SERIOUS QUESTION*
What should the fo... - 10:59 Design #1500: IsDivisible in a field?
- Today my preference is for *@IsDivisible@* and *@IsDivisible_AllowFields@*.
I think these names are fairly clear, an... - 15:40 Design #1446 (In Progress): Start using C++14 "move" capability
- Here are some fns to consider changing:
* @myCharacteristic@
* others???
- 15:35 Feature #24 (Rejected): object files collected in one directory
- What we have currenyl works well enough (most of the time), and has been stable for quite a while (at least 3 years)....
- 12:03 Feature #24: object files collected in one directory
- Do we really want to overhaul the current @Makefile@ structure?
I do not recall any problems lately, and am loath to... - 14:22 Design #1391: RingElems: syntax with [ and ] ?
- Note that we have @CoeffVecWRT@ and @CoeffListWRT@. So it would be reasonable to call the CoCoALib fn *@RingElemVec@*.
- 11:54 Design #1391: RingElems: syntax with [ and ] ?
- Should *@RingElemList@* be ported into CoCoALib? (perhaps with a different name?)
If so, what should it be called?
... - 14:06 Design #1462 (Closed): Change CoCoA_ERROR into CoCoA_THROW_ERROR
- Effectively removed old macro *@CoCoA_ERROR@* (still exists, but triggers compile-time error saying to use @CoCoA_TH...
- 13:26 Design #950: factor and SmoothFactor for integers --> FactorINT, FactorINT_TrialDiv, FactorINT_PollardRho
- I have just checked what the code currently does: if many primes have been tried without finding a factor *and* if t...
- 12:52 Bug #15: Adjoint of a non-invertible matrix
- This now works (since when?).
Surely the impl for @adj@ can be improved; there are several later issues about adj to...
12 Oct 2020
- 20:52 Design #1500: IsDivisible in a field?
- I still like the idea of a 3rd param (or perhaps two fns with similar names).
My preference is that a call like @IsD...
09 Oct 2020
- 21:19 Design #1500: IsDivisible in a field?
- Also @ex-RingElem1@ fails...
- 20:06 Design #1500: IsDivisible in a field?
- A comment about the code excerpt in comment 4. The call to @IsZeroDivisor@ is superfluous; perhaps it was put there ...
- 11:03 Design #1500: IsDivisible in a field?
- I have tried implementing the change (_i.e._ @IsDivisibile@ throws if given args in field).
Two tests fail: @test-Is... - 09:19 Design #1500: IsDivisible in a field?
- This is a bit less clear than I had previously thought. In the file @ring.C@ the function @IsDivisible@ (with 3 args...
- 14:16 Support #1452 (Closed): Release CoCoALib-0.99710
- 14:12 Feature #1395 (Closed): SHA checksum for released code
- 13:54 Design #1221 (Closed): Reconsider design for accessing headers and libs of external libraries
- Closing because the current design seems to work well (and has not changed for many months).
Surely the recorded t... - 13:27 Support #1499: factorization: allow zero as exponent?
- John Abbott wrote:
> My current feeling is that I should simply change the error mesg, and leave the rest as is: nam... - 11:11 Support #1499: factorization: allow zero as exponent?
- If we allow 0 as a multiplicity when calling @myAppend@ then it should also be allowed in the ctor call which accepts...
08 Oct 2020
- 12:35 Design #1500 (In Progress): IsDivisible in a field?
- I am becoming increasingly convinced that it is better to throw an error if the args are in a field (since it makes l...
07 Oct 2020
- 22:11 Slug #722 (Closed): valuation slow for large inputs
- The current impl is "good enough" for the moment. If a specific application comes up where more speed is needed then...
06 Oct 2020
- 15:42 Design #855: Copyright and authorship?
- We should do this in an orderly manner. Many files have already been done. It would be nice to finish this for 0.99...
- 15:39 Design #1242: C++14: Use type auto where appropriate
- I suggest we work through the source file systematically, and note which ones we have updated to use *@auto@* (and wh...
- 15:35 Bug #1473: isystem not working as expected
- *Anna?* is this better for you now?
I'm pretty sure I must have checked in the change mentioned here. Do you still... - 15:20 Design #1279 (Resolved): Tidy up code for matrix determinant
- Main dispatch fn is *@ConstMatrixViewBase::myDet@* around @matrix.C:221@
The code has already been considerably c... - 15:16 Design #1460 (Feedback): Name of TensorMat; change to KroneckerProd?
- This has already been done.
@TensorMat@ is now in @obsolete.C@
Was this already in 0.99710?
- 14:57 Design #1221 (In Progress): Reconsider design for accessing headers and libs of external libraries
- I wonder exactly what I had in mind when creating this issue.
The current situation is as follows: in @ExternalLib... - 14:41 Feature #1485: Simple syntax for making a quotient ring?
- As this is not urgent, I'm postponing it.
I also expect it to be trivial to implement should we decide to do so.
- 12:24 Design #710 (In Progress): Update normaliz interface?
- The current version of CoCoALib compiles fine with normaliz-3.8.9.
It is no longer clear me to what exactly this i... - 12:21 Bug #1280: Determinant & Inverse of matrix over non integral domain
- This question clearly needs more work -- postponing.
- 12:20 Bug #1280: Determinant & Inverse of matrix over non integral domain
- Now @det@ of a matrix over @ZZ/(6)@ work also for larger matrices, but it is horribly slow :-(...
- 12:11 Feature #743: Better errors: give supplementary info about the error
- I am postponing even though this is urgent. I need a quiet period to be able to think about the problem, and to find...
- 12:08 Design #1414: Make class RingElemVector?
- I am postponing, but also increasing priority.
I think this idea will be quite useful, but we need more time to th... - 11:35 Design #1391: RingElems: syntax with [ and ] ?
- I have changed *@RingElemList@* (in @NotBuiltin.cpkg5@).
I have added a new test @test-RingElems.cocoa5@ with the te... - 10:22 Support #1499: factorization: allow zero as exponent?
- The current interface for @FactorMultiplicity@ does not use a @factorization@.
Even if an alternative interface (lik... - 09:53 Feature #1490 (Rejected): New function: MinusOneToPower
- *REJECTED*
There is no need for *@MinusOneToPower@*; it can be achieved by *@SmallPower@* (if we want to avoid @Bi...
05 Oct 2020
- 14:39 Feature #1436 (Feedback): Flatten for a matrix
- I have added a test to @test-matrix4.C@
- 14:32 Design #1500: IsDivisible in a field?
- This might be a bit like computing gcd: strictly we can define it for a field, but we opted instead to give an error....
- 14:29 Design #1500 (Closed): IsDivisible in a field?
- What should @IsDivisible(a,b)@ do with arguments in a field?
Currently it returns the same as @not(b = 0)@.
This ... - 13:26 Support #1499 (In Progress): factorization: allow zero as exponent?
- My current feeling is that I should simply change the error mesg, and leave the rest as is: namely, multiplicities mu...
- 13:23 Support #1499 (Closed): factorization: allow zero as exponent?
- A factorization object in CoCoALib contains a list factor-multiplicity pairs.
According to the doc the factors must ... - 13:08 Feature #664: Impl small non-prime finite fields (using logs)
- I'd like to have the time to finish this, but that seems very unlikely in the immediate future. :-(
Postponing (yet... - 13:03 Design #1391: RingElems: syntax with [ and ] ?
- I would like to see a minor improvement: allow whitespace before the initial *@[@* and after the final *@]@*.
It wil... - 11:58 Design #1463 (Feedback): SmoothFactor: use FactorMultiplicity
- Now I think it is better not to make *@DivideOutMaxPower@* public; we can wait until there is actual demand for it.
... - 11:40 Feature #1490: New function: MinusOneToPower
- Now I am having doubts about this function...
The normal @power@ function just calls @mpz_power@, and I fully expe...
03 Oct 2020
- 17:41 Feature #1490 (Resolved): New function: MinusOneToPower
- I have implemented *@PowerOfMinusOne@* (for both @MachineInt@ and @BigInt@ exponents).
Currently they are not inline... - 17:27 Feature #1488 (Resolved): BuiltIn Interreduce-Function
- The function is called *@interreduced@*: it returns an interreduced *copy* of the original list (which is not changed...
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