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The Imperial College epidemic simulation code that I helped a little on is now public: https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim … I am a strong proponent of public code for models that may influence policy, and while this is a "release" rather than a "live" depot, it is a Good Thing.
Before the GitHub team started working on the code it was a single 15k line C file that had been worked on for a decade, and some of the functions looked like they were machine translated from Fortran. There are some tropes about academic code that have grains of truth, but \
it turned out that it fared a lot better going through the gauntlet of code analysis tools I hit it with than a lot of more modern code. There is something to be said for straightforward C code. Bugs were found and fixed, but generally in paths that weren't enabled or hit. \
Similarly, the performance scaling using OpenMP was already pretty good, and this was not the place for one of my dramatic system refactorings. Mostly, I was just a code janitor for a few weeks, but I was happy to be able to help a little.
@WillowWyse it is not lost on me that you never received an answer.
True -- and more to the point, the current policy was formed based on the original code, not this rewrite (which, even if it is a thing of surpassing loveliness, is irrelevant for the purpose of forensic examination).
The silence here is deafening, don't you think?
Please release the original code.
A decade to produce 15,000 lines of code? Only an academic could take so long to produce so little
That is a rather ignorant statement. Why should a code base be made to grow continuously as it is being used? If it works as intended there is no need to add lines of code. Academics are not primarily coders. Their work is not primarily to add lines of code.
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