Brian Ward
Brian Ward
#### Summary: The use and syntax of profile blocks is under-documented. A section in the users guide would be great, especially addressing: - profiling overhead, if any - Are profiling...
We should have `num_threads` more thoroughly documented, especially for other interfaces. It also seems like the cmdstan example calls are wrapping over the lines in the PDFs
I've recently been compiling a bunch of Stan models with `-Wall` and noticed this will often lead to a lot of unused variable warnings. We've handled most of the ones...
I know for a fact that this requires a few changes in `stan-dev/stan`'s json data handler to recognize unicode names, which is just one of several reasons this is a...
### Current Behavior: Enabling compiler optimizations currently stops emitting a default assignment for a variable if it is immediately assigned to (https://github.com/stan-dev/stanc3/pull/1029). However, this changes the behavior of those very...
#### Submission Checklist - [x] Run unit tests - Documentation - [ ] If a user-facing facing change was made, the documentation PR is here: - [x] OR, no user-facing...
This would allow Array functions to be able to accept arrays of tuples, e.g. `size` And also allow vectorization of things like a [7-parameter function, which would currently be too...
Melange (https://github.com/melange-re/melange) recently hit 1.0 and (seemingly) offers similar features to `Js_of_ocaml`: https://melange.re/v1.0.0/melange-for-x-developers/#for-js_of_ocaml-developers It would be interesting to build a version of `stancjs` with this tool instead (probably requiring some...
This is something I played around with on a slow day last week. I think it's an interesting idea, but not one I'm myself sold on. I'm opening it up...
## Introduction After #1277, the _only_ required use for forward declarations of functions is for using external C++ code. This feature as currently implemented is sub-par for a number of...