Re: [Mpi-forum] why do we only support caching on win/comm/datatype?

2023-01-16 Thread Jed Brown via mpi-forum
Second that MPI attributes do not suck. PETSc uses communicator attributes heavily to avoid lots of confusing or wasteful behavior when users pass communicators between libraries and similar comments would apply if other MPI objects were passed between libraries in that way. It was before my

Re: [Mpi-forum] Giving up on C11 _Generic

2019-08-12 Thread Jed Brown via mpi-forum
"Jeff Squyres \(jsquyres\) via mpi-forum" writes: > Let me ask a simple question: how will users to write portable MPI programs > in C with large count values? > > Answer: they will explicitly call MPI_Send_x(), and not rely on C11 _Generic. Few packages will accept a hard dependency on MPI-4

Re: [Mpi-forum] "BigCount" rendering in PDF

2019-07-31 Thread Jed Brown via mpi-forum
"Jeff Squyres \(jsquyres\) via mpi-forum" writes: > On Jul 31, 2019, at 12:59 PM, Jeff Hammond wrote: >> >> “C++ compilers shall produce the same result as C11 generic.” Why does this >> need to say anything different for profiling and tools? Is this impossible? > > Is there a way to have