On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Karl Rupp <rupp at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> On 02/03/2013 11:25 AM, Sean Farley wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Jed Brown <jedbrown at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>>> Can you quantify your productivity gains that come from pushing >>>>>> checkpoints instead of waiting for a semantically meaningful point to >>>>>> merge >>>>>> and push? >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I can quantify the losses from the changed you propose, which is all I >>>>> need to do. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Do share. >>>> >>> >>> >>> Its more work for me. Clearly you are asking me to do something I do not >>> currently do. A loss. >>> >>> >>>>> There are no "gains" from a baseline. This is >>>>> a point I have made multiple times. Changes must be justified. >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I provided a long list of justifications that you have not responded to. >>>> There is a great deal of empirical evidence to back my claims. >>>> >>> >>> >>> I have responded to each and every point carefully. You need to listen. >>> >> >> I have been following this conversation closely but have not seen you >> respond to any of the points on code review, new bugs, etc. I have >> seen you complain that you don't want to change your habits, though. >> > > +1 for Sean. I'm tired of carefully writing down the points I'm trying to > make, carefully (re-)reading through what I've written, and then just to > get a generic 'how does this relate to XYZ'-type of answer without really > addressing anything I've raised. > I find it tiring to continually make points that someone does not want to hear, and thus dismissed without recognizing that a point was made. Matt > Best regards, > Karli > > -- What most experimenters take for granted before they begin their experiments is infinitely more interesting than any results to which their experiments lead. -- Norbert Wiener -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20130203/3ccf9f6f/attachment-0001.html>
