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package org.apache.sysds.runtime.compress.lib;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.NotImplementedException;
import org.apache.sysds.runtime.matrix.data.MatrixBlock;

public class CLALibMerge {

	/**
	 * Merge b into a, if possible otherwise
	 * 
	 * @param a          MatrixBlock a to merge into if possible
	 * @param b          MatrixBlock b to take elements from
	 * @param appendOnly If the appending can be done into a sparse block without sorted indexes
	 * @param par        If parallelism is allowed
	 * @param deep       If the copy should be deep most common is true
	 * @return The merged MatrixBlock
	 */
	public static MatrixBlock merge(MatrixBlock a, MatrixBlock b, boolean appendOnly, boolean par, boolean deep) {
		throw new NotImplementedException();
	}
}
