On Oct 19, 10:42 am, William Stein <wst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 7:31 AM, David Harvey <dmhar...@cims.nyu.edu> wrote: > > > On Oct 19, 4:47 am, Bill Hart <goodwillh...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> I've just put up MPIR 1.3 release candidate 1. We are still waiting on some > >> final testing from Jeff Gilchrist, which will probably happen tomorrow. If > >> everything is fine, the release candidate will become the final release. > > > Wait a sec.... you are actually releasing my dc_divappr_q_n code, as > > is, in a production release??!! > > > Despite our earlier conversation? > > > It's marked "trial implementation" and "proof-of-concept", and even > > contains comments like > > > /* FIXME: hmmmm my test suite doesn't seem to generate this case, > > is it actually possible at all? */ > > For fun, I tried to find your code by searching for FIXME and got: > > wst...@sage:~/tmp/mpir-1.3.0$ grep -r FIXME *|wc -l > 365 > > So there is something to fix every day next year...
William, it's difficult for me to take this comment seriously. There is a big difference between a "FIXME" that means "something here is suboptimal and could be done better" and a "FIXME" that means "this code quite possibly has a bug because a certain case has not been ruled out". You take a remarkably cavalier attitude towards the correctness of MPIR, considering how much the validity of your research results depends on it. david --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mpir-devel" group. To post to this group, send email to mpir-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to mpir-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mpir-devel?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
