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data.table work diary: Sep 2 - 6

  • Sep 2, ‘24:

1) Reviewed #6451, #6196, #6454, and #6430. Shared thoughts regarding the scope of regression tests and label naming in #6393. Pinged Michael in a few older PRs for review, updated a few files here and there in old PRs (such as #6018 and #6196), commented in issue #44 @Raft, tried to debug some CSS. (9 hours)

  • Sep 3, ‘24:

1) Reviewed and helped to wrap up the discussion on #6018 with Michael and Toby, more atime-test discussion on a PR for fread gzip refactor. (2 hours)

2) Wrote the ‘Conclusions’ section for my blog post on mutation testing and made other changes Toby suggested - updated the issue (#6114) for the cases I explored, wrote a section about his PR for an fread test case, provided O/P for all the code I supplied along with a few subtle modifications here and there. (4 hours)

3) Zoom meeting. (2 hours)

  • Sep 4, ‘24:

1) Helped to wrap discussion about the atime test case in #6296, made a follow-up PR that introduced my test case, and made suggested changes + discussed the commit SHA commenting format. (4 hours)

2) Made changes to the testing blog post as per Toby’s suggestion. (3 hours)

3) Communicated with Doris to merge PRs and tried to help her out with the research article in terms of syncing changes and things left out to correct. Went through another round of proof-reading. (3 hours)

4) Brainstorming ways to make the GHA that keeps the list of OpenMP-using routines in sync with the openmp-utils.Rd manual (#6458). Taking inspiration from my old shell script #31. (1 hour)

  • Sep 5, ‘24:

1) Reviewed a few PRs, tested on my lappy for #6472, made a PR for the Seal of Approval header formatting changes, testing changes to atime test cases that involve new commit SHAs and style changes in my data.table fork. (4 hours)

2) Made some changes Toby suggested for data.table.threads, investigating what is possibly a bug in the speedup plot logic to get accurate values for the intersection of recommended and optimal speedup lines. (3 hours)

3) Wrapped up my changes for the research article and gave more feedback for Doris to revise upon. (2 hours)

  • Sep 6, ‘24:

1) Working on refactoring the logic in the plot method of data.table.threads to find the highest point of visual intersection among recommended and optimal speedup line types. (2 hours)