Re: matrix library ?

From: lums_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-03-14 17:29:21

--- In boost_at_y..., Toon Knapen <toon_at_s...> wrote:

> So how about using MTL 3.0 then as a starting point for the Boost
> library.

We have been having discussions about this idea in general for some 
time -- since it has been coming up on this list now, we were talking 
about it in particular this week.  Real work along these lines is 
likely to start fairly soon.

> I even suggest to boostify it now so that boost person-power
> can be added to the effort.

I do like the idea of extra person-power!  Indeed, lack thereof is 
what has slowed MTL development over the last few years.  I will 
discuss this with the rest of my lab (most of whom are reading this 
now anyway).

> You also mentioned/suggested that a layered approach should be 
taken :
> a linear algebra lib on top of a general matrix lib (matrix lib 
users
> will only find the LA functionality bloat). I totally agree with 
this
> approach. Is this also the way it's implemented in MTL 3.0 
currently ?

Well, let's call what we have right now (the unreleased MTL that may 
grow into MTL 3.0) "MTL 2.99" -- that is layered in this way.  We 
have been quite careful to separate concerns.  Much of the recent 
work in MTL 2.99 has been in getting the concepts (and the layers of 
concepts) right.