Martin Šošić

Adding some level of parallelization to Edlib

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Edlib was made not made with special care for parallelization and does not parallelize over threads or anything. The thing is, I am pretty sure that in practice there is...

Use smart pointers

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I should consider using smart pointers, as to avoid handling all the memory myself.

Make sequence more abstract, so it can be anything, not just array of chars.

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Multiple people where asking about support for multybyte characters (unicode). One way to provide that and even more is by making a sequence not an array of chars, but instead...

Figure out if we should remove CMake

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With Meson, we don't need CMake. However, it might be useful to have it, so people can more easily use Edlib in their CMake projects. On the other hand, that...

Use Meson in CI

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Now that we have Meson as build tool, we would like to use it as main build tool in the CI. Here are some suggestions on how to do this:...

Edlib for 1 vs N or N vs N

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Edlib does pairwise (1 vs 1) alignment, and while it can also be used for 1 vs N or N vs N that way, it would be interesting to see...

Right now, when optimizing a part of Edlib, we often have to manually test the change in speed / performance, and since there is never enough time, that means not...

It is probably best if I put it in main README.md of the repo, and I can link to it from the PYPI README. First entry for the FAQ could...