Re: [ViennaCL-devel] Behavior of norm_* on vectorint

2014-06-24 Thread Philippe Tillet
Hey 2014-06-24 12:29 GMT+02:00 Karl Rupp r...@iue.tuwien.ac.at: Hey, If yes,I think that it should be changed because this easily violates the axioms of a norm : we can have norm(alpha*v) != alpha*norm(v) because of the rounding. This will usually be the case

Re: [ViennaCL-devel] Behavior of norm_* on vectorint

2014-06-24 Thread Karl Rupp
Hey, Bear in mind also that PyViennaCL is such a shared library interface right now, and already has a fairly demanding compilation! Indeed! One quick question: does the explicit conversion step allocate any new memory, or is it treated like a cast? Such an explicit conversion creates new

Re: [ViennaCL-devel] Behavior of norm_* on vectorint

2014-06-24 Thread Karl Rupp
Hi, This sounds reasonable indeed. I need casting operation_node_type for the generator to control explicit casting within a generated kernel, but it sounds very reasonable to only allow such constructors indeed. The casting functionality can still be part of the generator, there's no reason

[ViennaCL-devel] Benchmark GUI Midterm Report

2014-06-24 Thread Namik Karovic
Hi all, This is a report on what was done so far, and what remains to be done on the Benchmark GUI project. Quick overview of what was done so far: -all benchmarks implemented and runnable from the GUI -result visualization of benchmarks -UI menu and navigation -CMake build system What remains

Re: [ViennaCL-devel] PyViennaCL midterm

2014-06-24 Thread Toby St Clere Smithe
Toby St Clere Smithe m...@tsmithe.net writes: I reiterate my call for an IRC meeting, but, following Namik's lead, I'll post a brief status update about PyViennaCL 2014. brief... -- Open source business process