Le 2012-03-06 à 19:28, Simon Perreault a écrit :

> On 2012-03-06 13:03, Rémi Després wrote:
>> In this analysis, the 4rd-u port-set algorithm is presented as an instance 
>> of GMA algorithm (i.e. Generalized Modulus Algorithm).
>> I think it would be more appropriate to have it in its own category, e.g. 
>> that of "parameter-less" algorithms (it has no reference to any modulo 
>> operator, and isn't intended to generalize anything)
>> It happens to to be alone in this parameter-less category but, since the 
>> goal is standardization, isn't this more good than evil?
> 
> I'm not sure moving 4rd-U to its own section would be useful for the purposes 
> of the document. What's important here is the similarity between 4rd-U, MAP, 
> and divi-pd, not the number of parameters that they use. This similarity 
> allows us to derive a single summary table containing properties shared by 
> all of them (section 3.1.4).

No problem

> Note that the draft says "GMA-style" algorithms, which gives us some leeway...

Well, no big concern.
Just making the point that there is no need to understand GMA to understand 
4rd-u.

Thanks,
RD


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