Its about time we start planning for a Release (0.91, 0.95, 1.0 ??). It
would be good to have Andrew M.'s proposed  'Topological Data Analysis' as
part of the planned release.
IMO

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> On Dec 11, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Actually, the updated optimizer is now even capabile of (not in all
> situations, but reasonably some) detecting and fusing unary elementwise
> operations in a continuous expression like
> 
> 5 + exp(drmX * drmX)
> 
> and convert it into plan that does x_i,j = 5+ exp(x_i,j*x_i,j) element-wise
> in one physical step.
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Dmitriy Lyubimov <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Is there any expectation about release time frame?
>> 
>> I am working (and i am hoping to reasonable resolution) to push a new
>> installment of small optimizer enhancements for distributed algebra.
>> 
>> it would help me to know if there's a sense of release time frame, it'd
>> give me an idea what to shoot for.
>> 
>> 
>> I want to offer few small things that we mostly already discussed.
>> 
>> (1) optimizer techniques to detect unary elementwise operations such as
>> 
>> drmX * drmX
>> dexp(drmX), mexp(mxX), vexp(vec)  (in R simply exp(x))
>> mxX ::= abs _ ( i.e sparse/dense elementwise evals)
>> 
>> (2) better binds like 1 cbind drmX, drmX cbind 1 (enhancement relevant for
>> "playing with shell" things)
>> 
>> (3) smaller things like non-int keyed matrices to int-keyed matrix
>> converstion with old 2 new key extraction
>> 
>> (4) various bug fixes
>> 
>> (5) whatever i forgot
>> 
>> Nothing earth shuttering but even small things are difficult (but not
>> unprecedented) to contribute here.
>> 
>> -d
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 

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