question about symforce

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Hi,

i noticed that ObVi-SLAM generates a c++ function named ReprojectionresidualWithJacobians012() using symforce but doesn't use it, i wonder why because recently i was accessing if symforce a suitable way for accelerating my code.
Doesn't it run faster?

Thanks.

[mandi1267]

Hi, thanks for checking out my work! Using the symforce Jacobian caused problems with long-term map extraction and Jacobian matrix rank deficiencies (which relies on the symforce generated Jacobian function). At the time of development, I decided that the observed speed-up did not justify additional time spent debugging these problems, so I switched back to autodifferentiatpion for Jacobian computation. I don't specifically recall problems with the online execution (though that was less my focus given the other problems observed), so the issues I found may not be problems for you. If I return to this investigation, I'll provide additional details / updates here.

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Can you explain more about long-term map extraction and Jacobian matrix rank deficiencies? I haven't found the problems you encountered.

Recently I was debuging with Aaron the mantainer of symforce, maybe I could talk with him about it.