With the ability to add methods to an abstract type, so we do not lose that important capability; makes sense to me.
On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 2:14:27 PM UTC-5, Stefan Karpinski wrote: > > 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] > <javascript:>> 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] <javascript:> [mailto: >> [email protected] <javascript:>] *On Behalf Of *John Myles White >> *Sent:* Wednesday, March 9, 2016 10:17 AM >> *To:* julia-users <[email protected] <javascript:>> >> *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 >> >> >
