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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
julia
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by running the linked reproducer with CUDA and Polynomials, focusing on the Polynomial(a) call for a CuVector. Trace where that constructor stops responding and add a regression test; done means the example completes without hanging.

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Description

In https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-polynomials-jl-with-cuda-jl/80580 we find the following hangs:

using CUDA, Polynomials
a = CuVector([1.0f0, 1.0f0, 1.0f0])
Polynomial(a)
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Julia
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10h 1m
Merged PRs (30d)
5

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