[Libre-soc-dev] SimdSignal library

[Jacob Lifshay]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 10:35 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net>
wrote:

> i have just completed the unit test for PartitionedSignal.__Assign__
> with SIMD signals as input: i will also have scalar Signals as input,
> shortly.
>
> this brings completion of PartitionedSignal up to around 92-95%.
>
> starting an entirely new from-scratch library that abandons 5 months
> of existing work *before it is completed* is extremely unwise, and
> likely to jeapordise our chances of success.
>

it's not completely abandoned if we reuse tests, design work for things
like PartitionedAdder, etc.

>
> 1) there is no budget available
> 2) there is no time available
> 3) the new library's completion time which requires assessing
>     the time to complete the library itself, Formal Correctness
>     Proofs *and* unit tests, has NOT been done
>
just did it...

Jacob