[elephant-devel] secondary indices

[Waldo Rubinstein]

Robert,

I've tried to tackle this to no avail. Maybe my knowledge does not  
extend that far yet :(

Little more help would be needed. Maybe someone else's participation  
could help.

Thanks,
Waldo

On Jan 13, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Robert L. Read wrote:

> It's not clear to me that it matters.
>
> Going either direction will likely lead to a solution.  I would  
> take Andrew's advice,
> since his hunch may have vailidity, and also because it is the  
> first failure in the test suite.
>
> But the course of action would be the same:
>
> 1)  Take the test that fails, copy the code out of it into a  
> separate file where the RT
> code won't obscure the problem.
> 2)  Instrument the code to find the earliest possible error; in  
> this case, that may be
> the failure of that instantiation code to let you get to that slot,  
> or maybe some other slot.
> 3)  Whenever you want, I will take your test code and run it under  
> SBCL.
>
> In this way we should be able to relatively quickly determine the  
> important difference
> between SBCL and OpenMCL.  Depending on what you find, I will  
> likely need Andrew's
> advice on how to fix it.
>
>
>
> On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 14:10 -0500, Waldo Rubinstein wrote:
>> Thanks Andrew. Robert, how do you want to proceed. Where should I
>> look for potential CLOS problems?
>>
>> - Waldo
>>
>> On Jan 13, 2006, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Blumberg wrote:
>>
>> > hi robert and waldo,
>> >
>> > 	before going too far in debugging the secondary indices part of
>> > the problem, i think it's worth trying to figure out the CLOS
>> > problem --- i suspect that the rest of the issue might be a symptom
>> > of that, and "fixing" the secondary indices stuff might just paper
>> > over the real problem.  if you're going to spend time instrumenting
>> > code, better to investigate the CLOS test failures first.
>> >
>> > 								- andrew

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