JuliaMath / RealDot.jl

Compute `real(dot(x, y))` efficiently.

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Add `realdot` #2

Closed devmotion closed 3 years ago

devmotion commented 3 years ago

This PR adds realdot from https://github.com/JuliaDiff/ChainRulesCore.jl/pull/474, which was defined initially (and still is defined) as _realconjtimes in ChainRules.jl.

The commits are a bit messy since I wanted to preserve the git history to give credit to the original authors (mainly @sethaxen) more explicitly. I only added realdot (for now) since it seems more generally useful than imagdot and its implementation did not use any ChainRules-specific types (https://github.com/JuliaDiff/ChainRulesCore.jl/pull/474#issuecomment-940428445).

cc: @sethaxen

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devmotion commented 3 years ago

Thanks, I'll merge once tests pass!

One remaining question to consider though: @sethaxen and @oxinabox, do you think I should move it JuliaMath or JuliaDiff before registering it? This wouldn't affect maintenance or have any immediate impact on the package but would mainly make it look a bit more official. I guess this could be helpful if we want to add it as a dependency to ChainRules and SpecialFunctions.

oxinabox commented 3 years ago

Yes, you should move it. It's not really a AD thing as we discovered. So it must be a linear algebra thing. So I guess not JuliaDiff

sethaxen commented 3 years ago

Can you add a test for a number for which only *,conj, adjoint, and real are defined? as a proxy for hypercomplex numbers like Quaternions.Quaternion.

devmotion commented 3 years ago

So it must be a linear algebra thing.

Do you mean the package should be moved to JuliaLinearAlgebra? Since so far it mainly deals with Numbers, I would rather move it to JuliaMath.

devmotion commented 3 years ago

@sethaxen I added a test with quaternions.