Re: Sparse 0.5.1 RC5 released.

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On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar
<mobile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> In the interest of getting the release out I recommend simply undoing
> the single store shortcut change. It was a last minute change and that
> is always risky.

Thing is that this change was made to solve another problem:
sparse going in infinite loops because this shortcut doesn't
handle uninitialized variables while the general case is correct.
So it's a question of correctness vs. performance.

Of course, I also sent yesterday another, more general, bandaid
for these problems but well ...

-- Luc
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