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From 11 Dec 2020 to 09 Jan 2021

09 Jan 2021

18:20 Feature #1559 (In Progress): Default ctor for rings
Winfried Bruns sent the following by email:
"I wanted to define a class that contains two sparesepoly rings as mem...
John Abbott

08 Jan 2021

18:46 Bug #1376 (Resolved): GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
Using just the one example "french students" example, the current (2021-01-08) version of @CpuTimeLimit@ works accept... John Abbott
09:48 Bug #1376: GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
Now I think it should be possible to make @CpuTimeLimit@ check the time more frequently without much overhead (by che... John Abbott
18:11 Design #1558 (Resolved): CpuTimeLimit: more frequent clock checks
I now have a version of @CpuTimeLimit@, which actually uses only "steady clock" rather than @CpuTime@.
It seems to...
John Abbott
16:11 Design #1558: CpuTimeLimit: more frequent clock checks
Now I am wondering whether it may not make more sense to base @CpuTimeLimit@ on the "steady clock" (but then the nam... John Abbott
10:07 Design #1558 (In Progress): CpuTimeLimit: more frequent clock checks
Here is the code I used as a speed check:... John Abbott
09:38 Design #1558 (Closed): CpuTimeLimit: more frequent clock checks
The impl of @CpuTimeLimit@ is a bit complicated because the @CpuTime@ function is more expensive than I had expected.... John Abbott
13:03 Design #1391 (Closed): RingElems: syntax with [ and ] ?
I have added some tests (to @test-RingElem5.C@).
All seems OK. Closing.
John Abbott
11:58 Bug #1484: ker bug (quotientinghom for R/ideal())
Anna! check ring for empty lists! Anna Maria Bigatti

07 Jan 2021

20:54 Bug #1376: GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
The relevant source is probably in *@SparsePolyOps-reduce.C@* around line 133.
The timer object is constructed in...
John Abbott
20:42 Bug #1376: GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
Setting the timeout to 20s worked very well. Setting it to 25s triggered an interruption after 95s.
Setting it to 9...
John Abbott
20:19 Bug #1376: GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
Why are there no test cases for this issue? Without them how can i know if it has been satisfactorily solved?
Usi...
John Abbott
20:26 Support #1555 (In Progress): Software licence
Here is a suggestion:
* find out how many different copyright messages we need (headers, source, tests, examples, do...
John Abbott
20:04 Design #855: Copyright and authorship?
I have added Bigatti to all files which had just Abbott as copyright holder.
Anna should now add Abbott to all files...
John Abbott
20:02 Slug #1557 (Resolved): Reading list of rationals is too slow
There was a bug in my first version of the faster code: @in.get(ch)@ does not put EOF into @ch@ when EOF is reached -... John Abbott

06 Jan 2021

11:40 Slug #1557: Reading list of rationals is too slow
I have found a potentially useful entry on *StackOverflow*: link @https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9272276/can-you... John Abbott
11:32 Slug #1557 (In Progress): Reading list of rationals is too slow
I'm still puzzled: @ScanUnsignedIntegerLiteral@ continue to be slower than whatever the CoCoA-5 interpreter does; cou... John Abbott

05 Jan 2021

21:55 Slug #1557: Reading list of rationals is too slow
The profiler indicates that major costs are @hgcd@ (from GMP) and @ScanUnsignedIntegerLiteral@ (from CoCoALib).
JA...
John Abbott
21:43 Slug #1557 (Closed): Reading list of rationals is too slow
Winfried Bruns sent me a file with about 100000 rationals (total size about 130Mbytes).
If I read the file in using ...
John Abbott

28 Dec 2020

17:56 Support #1555: Software licence
Here are what we need to do:
* ensure that all copyright lines are correct (Anna and me)
* remove the GPL blurb fro...
John Abbott

22 Dec 2020

16:16 Bug #1376: GBasisTimeout: not working as expected
What is the status of this issue? John Abbott
16:10 Bug #1542: gfan does not "deinitialize"
A non-solution is to modify the documentation to say that @GMPAllocator@ does not work well with GFan (or else the u... John Abbott

21 Dec 2020

12:33 Support #1555 (Closed): Software licence
Gereon Kremer asks whether we are willing to release some or all of the source for CoCoA/CoCoALib under a different l... John Abbott
 

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