Problem with Math.Elementwise class in V3.3.0 ... .Add method shows as having 2474 overloads.

[rpmSportsAnalytics]

When I try to use the Elementwise.Add method to replace the deprecated Matrix.Add method Visual Studio freezes while trying to auto-complete the .Add method. As a test, I also tried to use the Elementwise.Subtract method and the same thing happens. After a very long delay I can proceed to add the function parameters. The problem appears to be associated with the following:

... the Elementwise.Add method shows as having 2474 overloads!

I am using VS 2015, .net 4.6.1 and Accord 3.3.0.

[cesarsouza]

Hi there,

Thanks for opening the issue. Indeed, it seems there are far too many overloads for the Elementwise functions right now... They were being automatically created by T4 templates in order to provide implementations for most C# numerical types, as unfortunately this cannot be done using generic parameters right now (i.e. dotnet/roslyn#2147, dotnet/roslyn#3255, dotnet/roslyn#3391).

However, it should be possible to cut the number of overloads at least by half by removing the overloads that do not include a 'result' parameter and making this parameter optional; as well as removing support for not-so-common types.

[hzawary]

Ya, I have seen that the problem before :)

[cesarsouza]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for the feedback regarding this issue. The number of overloads has been decreased in the latest releases; and also, it seems that VS2017 does a much better job at displaying all those overloads without much delay.

I will be closing this issue for now, but if anyone thinks this can still be a problem, please re-open it.

Regards,
Cesar