On 11/18/10 7:17 PM, Ted Dunning wrote:
I really don't think that a general progress listener framework implies this clutter and for long running algorithms is a very nice thing.
I agree. Do you have specific ideas on how best to look at this? What does Mahout do?
Phil CM does not actually have all that many long running
algorithms. On the other hand, the proposed interface is not a general progress listener and is not a good idea (IMHO). On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Gilles Sadowski< [email protected]> wrote:I had a very simple one-method interface in mind, namely public interface CMAESPlotter { void plot(List<Double> fitnessHistory, List<Double> sigmaHistory, List<RealMatrix> meanHistory, List<RealMatrix> dHistory, int lambda) }The problem is that you start cluttering the code with interfaces that are not related to the working of a mathematical algorithm and are meaningful only in relation to a specific part of the library. Other users would like to access the internal state of different algorithms; so you could end up with many such interfaces: interface ThisPlotter { ... } interface ThatPlotter { ... } interface AnotherNiceAlgorithmPlotter { ... } etc. Moreover, this would make the list of contructors grow, as well as would require additional instance variables...
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