Re: [GSoC] Contributor candidate introduction

From: Plato Kiorpelidis <kioplato@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 15, 2022, 21:01 UTC
Message-ID: <CAO2gv83WXPmABfVu_YR57rJg8sJ7mv-pUuXDpxYw644gcRCtYw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Ylc4rWZf380FlEbj@nand.local>

On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 11:55 PM Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:

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> Hi Plato,

Hey Taylor,

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> On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 04:34:11PM -0400, Taylor Blau wrote:
> > Instead, let's keep the project as-is, and have the accepted student
> > focus on one of the first two bullet points, taking into account that
> > we'll first want to spend some time thinking about whether or not the
> > current .bitmap format is appropriate given the proposed changes.
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> If this sounds interesting to you, I would encourage you to submit a
> proposal similar to the ones in

Yes, it does sound interesting to me because it's an experimental project. I'm working exclusively on my proposal for the past week reading papers and benchmarks, while writing digests about them to include in my proposal, in favor of roaring method. As you also said, having a proposal with references and digests about previous work, discussions and papers does help regardless of being selected.

Technical question: will roaring bitmaps' random access feature help with introducing the "table of contents" feature? Or is it bitmap compression agnostic?

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>     https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220406200440.27010-1-chakrabortyabhradeep79@gmail.com/
>     https://lore.kernel.org/git/20220409184350.1124-3-shivam828787@gmail.com/

Thanks, I've already read both of them and used them as guideline for my proposal.

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> Feel free to take a look at mine and Kaartic's responses to each of
> those, two, since they may influence your planning / which sub-project
> sounds most interesting / etc.

I saw your and Kaartic's reviews and incorporated them into my proposal.

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> Thanks,
> Taylor

Thanks, Plato