Implement Beman.InplaceVector

[camio]

This task is to create a new Beman.InplaceVector library implementing Gonzalo Brito Gadeschi et. all's inplace_vector paper.

There is a production-quality here licensed under Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception that would be a good start. Another non-production-quality implementation is here.

@gnzblg offered to mentor anyone who wants to take this up.

[Hels15]

Hi, @camio. I'd be interested in implementing this for Beman, but first I have to ask: what c++ knowledge is required? Would help from someone who's not professional still be accepted or you are looking for someone with more experience?

[camio]

Hey @Hels15! For this task, I think intermediate C++ competence would be helpful, but don't worry about asking "beginner" questions. We all start somewhere and are happy to help.

[Hels15]

Hey @Hels15! For this task, I think intermediate C++ competence would be helpful, but don't worry about asking "beginner" questions. We all start somewhere and are happy to help.

In that case I would be happy to take on the project.

[camio]

Awesome! In that case you should be able to create an InplaceVector repository in the beman-project org and start populating it. Feel free to ask questions in the Beman discourse.

[Hels15]

Awesome! In that case, you should be able to create an InplaceVector repository in the beman-project org and start populating it. Feel free to ask questions in the Beman discourse.

Thank you, I'm wondering if @gnzblg is a valid username on Git Hub, as I can't seem to find any reference to the person who offered the help for mentorship.

[Hels15]

Also my other question: Is it good enough if the implementation matches with the ones that you sent before, or there are some improvements that we are trying to make that differ from the current implementations?

[camio]

I think you could probably use those implementations directly. You can check to make sure they match the specification of the paper and just put them in the Beman format. @gnzblg is Gonzalo Brito, the primary author of the paper. https://github.com/gnzlbg

[Hels15]

@camio I have a pr here for review, if I'm not mistaken you said that Gonzalo Brito offered his help to review the possible implementations: beman-project/inplace_vector#1

[JeffGarland]

Since this is well underway should we close this issue

[camio]

Makes sense to me. Closing