Jed Brown

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The problem is http://bugs.python.org/issue12786 (fixed in 2.7 and later) but the most convenient fixes have Windows portability problems. I'll fix it. Duane Murphy [email protected] writes: > I upgraded python to...

issue12786 is really a catastrophy for portability. I'm surprised there is no documented best practice. The threads are not for performance, but rather to construct a pipeline containing some non-Python...

> Compilers largely don't know the semantics of ifunc and are very conservative. Ifunc defeats most interprocedural optimizations. We can see that the target_clones function foo is not inlined into...

Interesting and perhaps related to recent work from Brubeck and Farrell on bases with sparsity properties.

Sorry about the silence. I'm concerned about backward compatibility for `.gitfat` files. If compatibility must be broken, it should happen only once ever (I think named remotes are the way...

@willkelleher That's great news. For the config file, I really want named remotes in every way analogous to Git remotes. I think the syntax could be like ``` [remote "foo"]...

@willkelleher I have noticed people using git-fat to store somewhat compressible files, such that the "dumb" object store takes a lot more space than a git packfile (and more network...

Hi, sorry to be unresponsive. The simple state is that this project's test suite isn't sufficient for me to be able to quickly review PRs and I'm stretched super thin...

I think it's worth leaving this PR open so the branch is saved. It may be that a fresh effort would start from `main` and cherry-pick docs and code from...

I'm a fan of MyST and would like to see high-quality HTML output. One issue will be that it's not uncommon for current authors to inline some LaTeX bits and...