Tuesday, November 1st: 12:01 PM

I am considering two possibilities for my project: an n-dimensional parallel prefix scan OR a ruby library for pilot for my CIS 3090 project… I’ll list some pros and cons!

n-dimensional parallel prefix scan:
pros:

• may be less work
• would be super cool
• could be really useful
• teaches me some math
• teaches me some algorithms

cons:

• really hard; I might not be able to do this
• could be a lot of “hidden work”
• risk doing this “wrong”
• might just not be very fast!

2. Ruby port of pilot library:
pros:

• have to get to know pilot intimately
• easy to incrementalize
• open source project to maintain
• get way better at ruby

cons:

• have to get to know pilot intimately
• probably a ridiculous amount of work
• not very “original”

Hmmmm…