Brad Chamberlain

I have a question related to the "included by default" / `.sorted` on domains/arrays bullets, which I didn't fully understand: I thought we'd made some moves recently to avoid having...

That sounds intriguing, thanks! And when you say: > So there'd still be some contents in the locations with types we want to sort, but hopefully not nearly as much....

I completely agree with this. I think the Sort module's sorting (ha ha) into the packages/ directory was more because of its history and instability than a sense that it...

Grepping for `pragma "no copy return"` is another way to find tests that run into this issue (I believe by doing so I found some not in Michael's list above)....

Oh, OK. I was thinking we didn't have a way to return an array by ref today short of using a pragma. I must've been misremembering (I've confirmed that it...

> Should pickSlice() return a shallow copy of the chosen slice or a ref to it? I would say a shallow copy of the chosen slice. For comparison's sake, when...

> I expect that array creation will increment the array counter in the respective domain. This is what makes me concerned about performance impact. For your `pickArray()` case, that could...

I like the current name, myself. Short, sweet, straightforward. `Sorting` is the other main option that comes to mind, but I don't know if the incremental benefit is worth the...

Hi @s-timcheck — As you're finding, we have primarily used the GMP module to implement Chapel's `bigint` type, such that other aspects of GMP have received little, if any, attention....

@s-timcheck : Thanks for the additional notes, and sorry to drop the conversation here. I seem to have gotten distracted by other things this week. I'll look at putting this...