Sorry if it is kinda intimidating that I put so many questions. I really just need the answer to the first one to make my proposal. I know I am a little late to GSOC, but I've really enjoyed getting to know the Sympy community a little bit in this past week and I am committed to putting together a good project proposal. Thanks, Sam. On Friday, March 29, 2024 at 4:37:55 PM UTC-5 Sam Lubelsky wrote:
> I put an introduction a few emails down, but to recap my name is Sam, I'm > a college freshman, and I'm very interested in working on improving Sympy's > benchmarking services over this summer through GSOC. > > While going through the project description I had a few questions: > > 1) *"It also needs an automated system to run them"* > What exactly is meant by this. Right now, github actions seems to be > already automatically running benchmarking after each pr. Why is this not > an automated system? Is the meaning of automated system something that > runs weekly/monthly on the whole repo, generates a benchmark report and > sends it* somewhere?* > > 2) *How to go about hosting benchmarks on a remote, dedicated machine?* > What's the general idea of how to go about this in open source project. Is > there money available to pay some cloud provider to host it? Free hosting > options?(doesn't seem reliable enough for benchmarking). > > 3) *SymEngine vs SymPy. *I'm not familiar with SymEngine. Approximately > how similar are SymPy and SymEngine? Is making the project also work with > SymEngine more of a quick fix(≈1-2 weeks) or should I expect it to take > longer? > > 4) *Current Benchmark Suite* > *"We currently have a benchmarking suite and run the benchmarks on GitHub > Actions, but this is limited and is often buggy"* > > What are the limitation(s) to github actions that this project should > address? > If we don't use github actions, is there another way to make it run after > every PR like we have now? > > 5) *Where are the tests run now?* > On the project description it says " the results are run and hosted Ad > Hoc", which I assumes means whatever computer is running all the other PR > tests. Just want to make sure this is correct. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/9c277927-7ac7-4c91-8c10-9ec63263f307n%40googlegroups.com.
