[Ad-dev] [ADIC] #48: Enhancements for the Runtime Library

[ADIC]

#48: Enhancements for the Runtime Library
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 Reporter:  snarayan          |       Owner:  snarayan
     Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new     
 Priority:  major             |   Milestone:          
Component:  Canonicalization  |     Version:          
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 1. Separate the Sparse and Dense runtime libraries from the main ADIC
 library.The user should also get a local copy of the runtime library which
 should also solve the issue of setting the ADIC_GRADVEC_LENGTH in two
 places.

 2. Make the sparse and dense runtime interfaces the same. Therefore, the
 differentiated code will be created once, but can be linked against the
 sparse or dense libraries on demand.

 3. All routines in the runtime libraries should be changed to macos as far
 as possible.

 4. Dynamically create both the sparse and dense Sax/Saxpy macros.

 5. Instead of an STL::set and and STL:: list of sets to maintain non-zero
 Jacobian, think of other ways.

 6. All DERIV_TYPE objects should have their grad array zeroed out,
 temporaries should have their values zeroed out. This step maybe unneeded
 if XAIFBooster always sets the values of temporaries before use.

 7. Create a way for the user to know that the generated code can overrun
 stack space, and that temporaries and existing variables should be
 dynamically allocated.

 8. Create a way to  dynamically allocate temporaries and existing
 variables.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/ADIC/ticket/48>
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