Re: Standard Matrix interfaces

From: walter_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-08-22 15:55:25

Hi Jeremy,

you wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Hayati Ayguen wrote:
> Ayguen> i had a look into the sources. it is very difficult to 
understand them.
> Ayguen> is there any more documentation, on topics like:
> Ayguen> - interfaces
> 
> In libs/numberic/doc you will find LinearAlgebraConcepts.html which
> describes the high-level concepts for linear algebra operations. We 
do not
> yet have concept documents describing vector and matrix traversal. 
Perhaps
> I can whip ones of those out soon. Perhaps Walter could also write 
up the
> concepts for the interface he used in uBLAS so we could compare 
them. 

Done. We provided our current documentation in 
libs/numeric/ublas/doc. The documentation is still incomplete, but we 
hope you'll get a first impression.

> Ayguen> - used concepts
> Ayguen> - comments on used template parameters (mostly single 
characters are
> Ayguen> used, and i'm unable to see which concept or tag is used)
> Ayguen> - a summary of concerned issues, and partly, the how and in 
which
> Ayguen> classes/files them are concerned, would help.
> Ayguen> - some simple examples showing how to iterate through 
elements of
> Ayguen> matrices/vectors and how to specialize this onto underlying 
matrix type
> Ayguen> (mostly memory-layout but ..) would help, too.
> 
> Yes these things would be nice to have... and they will be there 
for the
> finished product, we just have a long way to go.

Yep.
 
Regards
 
Joerg