I will try and get some test data with different vector sizes (made by
Rust) tomorrow

On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 5:17 PM Micah Kornfield <[email protected]>
wrote:

> >
> > I don't understand what you are proposing here? Are you saying that the
> > spec would just hard code the number of elements? I think having it
> > configurable is desirable
>
>
> Yes, just hard-code.  I agree it might be desirable but if we do make it
> configurable, then we need to make sure the reference implementations
> support this, and we have test data to verify cross-compatibility.
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM Andrew Lamb <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > There was some desire to have this configurable, but I wonder if
> > we should postpone configurability for the sake of simplicity and
> reducing
> > the integration testing surface area.
> >
> > I don't understand what you are proposing here? Are you saying that the
> > spec would just hard code the number of elements? I think having it
> > configurable is desirable
> >
> > > Thank again Prateek for all your work here.
> >
> >
> > 100% -- thank you Prateek
> >
> > On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 2:44 PM Micah Kornfield <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > In reviewing the C++ implementation for ALP there are two things that
> > stood
> > > out in terms of testing that could impact the spec.
> > >
> > > 1.  Currently vector size is hard-coded in the C++ implementation to
> 1024
> > > elements.  There was some desire to have this configurable, but I
> wonder
> > if
> > > we should postpone configurability for the sake of simplicity and
> > reducing
> > > the integration testing surface area.
> > >
> > > 2.  C++ is doing a fair bit of unsigned math.  I haven't done a deep
> dive
> > > to understand the implications for how Java handles math, but we need
> to
> > > make sure Java is capable of handling extreme cases properly.
> > >
> > > Other than that I think it seems to be close to addressing
> implementation
> > > issues and spec wording. I'm looking forward to seeing this land.
> > >
> > > Thank again Prateek for all your work here.
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Micah
> > >
> >
>

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