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data.table work diary: Oct 7 - Oct 11

  • Oct 7, ‘24:

1) Made changes to data.table.threads based on feedback by CRAN maintainer Benjamin Altmann. (3 hours)

2) Reviewed #6555 for the changes Toby made, ran the updated atime tests locally, wrote a comment on the PR thread conveying the discrepancy I saw on the memory part, wrapped up tests for the same on my fork. (5 hours)

  • Oct 8 - 9:

On sick leave.

  • Oct 10, ‘24:

1) Filled NAU’s Annual Travel Certification form and communicated with Lawson for the last part of the talk trip reimbursement ticket. (2 hours)

2) Shifted the plot data computing part to findOptimalThreadCount from the plot method in data.table.threads and refactored code accordingly (#24), reviewed #6555 again for small changes. (7 hours)

  • Oct 11, ‘24:

1) Tried to close #6480, introduced recommendedEfficiency argument to determine the slope of the recommended efficiency line and compute the closest points logic accordingly + reduced redundancy in data.tabe.threads PR #25. (7 hours)