The sticking point has been the decision – which seemed to have already been made as of last summer – about whether slices should be views or not. There has been fierce debate about that and no apparent consensus. Part of the problem is that we do not yet have all of the compiler support required to fully evaluate the potential performance of array views: we still need to heap allocate any object which refers to heap allocated objects, which means that we cannot stack allocate array views and the compiler cannot do much to optimize them.
At this point, I'm inclined to wrap up the rest of the array changes, including the one that Scott brings up and start the RC phase for 0.5. That would leave the array view change as a future potential change. On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:36 PM, David Anthoff <[email protected]> wrote: > At some point in the summer there was communication from the core team > that v0.5 would be a short release cycle that was all about the > arraypocalypse theme. My sense is that this original plan is off the table, > and that (as John said) there is no new time plan to replace the original > one, or at least none has been communicated from the core at this point. > Take this info with a grain of salt, I’m largely reading tea-leaves here :) > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > *On Behalf Of *John Myles White > *Sent:* Wednesday, March 9, 2016 10:17 AM > *To:* julia-users <[email protected]> > *Subject:* [julia-users] Re: What to read to understand finishing v0.5? > > > > I think it's fair to say that the reason your questions aren't already > answered by GitHub is because there's no one who's made an executive > decision about the answers to those questions. > > > > -- John > > On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 4:44:28 AM UTC-8, Andreas Lobinger wrote: > > Hello colleagues, > > i need a bigger picture of the status of v0.5, dates, timelines, missing > features, missing testing, expected closing. Just go to github and select > the v0.5 milestone gives me a diverse picture. > > Wishing ahappy day, > Andreas > >
