Hey Philippe, Philippe Tillet <phil.til...@gmail.com> writes: > Concerning the Norm, I have made minor changes in the > operator/operator-subfamily for a new version of the generator. Maybe your > statement parsing relies on the former family? The type > (OPERATION_UNARY_NORM_*_TYPE) has not changed, though...
Do you have a link to a diff I can read? Also, I'm still just using ViennaCL 1.5.1: did the change happen there? In any case, I might need to change things later.. Cheers, Toby > Philippe > > > 2014-02-18 17:29 GMT+00:00 Toby St Clere Smithe <m...@tsmithe.net>: > >> Hey, >> >> Karl Rupp <r...@iue.tuwien.ac.at> writes: >> > Argl, the reason is that I had to do a manual clone of your Boost.NumPy >> > repo and did not change the branch. I don't think it's good to have a >> > patched repo for Boost.NumPy around... >> >> Ah -- if you do the git submodule update --init command, I think it does >> that for you. In any case, I need to ship boost.numpy with pyviennacl, >> because it's not a standard part of boost, and I need to ship it as a >> static library because it's not included in any public / common >> distributions, as far as I can tell. >> >> > Still searching. The build process is so awfully slow, it's killing >> > productivity. It takes me minutes to just get a compiler error if >> > something was wrong... >> >> I know; it's painful. I've wasted so much time over the last couple of >> days waiting for compilation runs to terminate.. Hopefully my discovery >> of ccache will help in this regard. >> >> >> I've also remembered that my own code to compute vector norms using >> >> scheduler calls doesn't work, and that seems to be because I'm building >> >> the expression tree in that case as I do for all other expressions at >> >> the moment, like this: >> >> >> >> Assign(Scalar, Norm_2(Vector)) >> >> >> >> but there doesn't seem to be functionality for that kind of scalar >> >> expression in the scheduler, so that needs fixing. But I'm not sure that >> >> the two issues are related. >> > >> > That might be the cause, because norms are essential in the iterative >> > solvers. >> >> Sure, but why would a problem with the scheduler calls to the norm >> functions also interfere with the standard API calls, unless there was >> something wrong with the norm computation -- or the norm was in fact 0? >> Since the norm doesn't look to be 0, then perhaps something is wrong in >> the computation of the norm.. but then why wouldn't it have been >> noticed? I'm just using ViennaCL 1.5.1, which works for everyone else!.. >> >> >> Finally, you can improve recompilation speeds using ccache, but alas I >> >> think it will remain a limitation that standard parallel builds do not >> >> work, thanks to Python's distutils. >> > >> > We need to Python's distutils as much as possible and only expose the >> > very least amount of targets. libviennacl would certainly be *the* >> > solution to this problem. >> >> Yeah. The trade-off at the moment is between memory usage and >> compilation time. Historically, I had fewer targets to build, but that >> ate up many gigabytes of RAM, which is less acceptable than using up >> more minutes of build time -- because ultimately, a user should only >> need to build it once! >> >> Best, >> >> Toby >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications >> Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. >> Read the Whitepaper. >> >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> ViennaCL-devel mailing list >> ViennaCL-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viennacl-devel >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications > Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. > Read the Whitepaper. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > ViennaCL-devel mailing list > ViennaCL-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viennacl-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Managing the Performance of Cloud-Based Applications Take advantage of what the Cloud has to offer - Avoid Common Pitfalls. Read the Whitepaper. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=121054471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ ViennaCL-devel mailing list ViennaCL-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viennacl-devel
