2020 02 17 Open NEST Developer Video Conference

previous | list | next

Agenda

1. Welcome

2. Special topics

   • missing spikes news
     vector<bool> is not implemented as vector, but as bit-sets. Threaded access to containers is handled different for vector<>s and bit-sets. latter not being handled right.
   • libRandom news
     switch to C++ RNGs was prepared in the last weeks
     

     • different compilers use different library implementations leading to different random numbers

       • option 1: continue using libGSL
       • option 2: boost library

       we do not want to bind nest too much to external libraries, but boost as well as libGSL are sufficiently standard to be accepted as dependency.
       DECISION: do performance checks and use one as hard dependency.

3. Review of NEST User Mailing List

   • all mails handled

4. Review of open Github Pull Request

   • postponed

5. Review of open Github Issues

   • discussed new issues

6. Any other business