[boost] Re: Interest in a 2d matrix class?

From: Petr Ovchenkov (ptr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-10-08 09:40:01

>>>>> "SN" == Siemel Naran <SiemelNaran_at_[hidden]> writes:

 SN> Hello.  Is there interest in a 2d matrix class?  I didn't find
 SN> one on boost.  Wrote two last year.  First is matrix<T> and does
 SN> not support row/column swapping (though you can always swap
 SN> individual elements).  The second is matrix_swap<T>.

 SN> I implement both in terms of my own class array<T> which is
 SN> almost like std::vector.  My array<T> full definition is template
 SN> <class T, template <class> class Allocator = allocator>; and this
 SN> might cause problems.  There are other minor issues.

Performance is a corner stone for such classes. I hope, that goals
of Blitz++ (http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/) has relation to
this topic and will be useful in discussion.