[petsc-dev] Pushing non-working code

[Matthew Knepley]

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.

  Matt

-- 
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
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