Re: [boost] different matrix library?

Subject: Re: [boost] different matrix library?
From: Rutger ter Borg (rutger_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-11 14:11:14

DE wrote:
[snip] 
> if we lived in ideal world it'll be the very approach
> however the first sentence on boost homepage states that
>> Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.
> i don't think blas implementations such that you say will be ever portable
> (and i actually wonder how the threading was made portable??)

Thanks :-) I'm not sure, but portable may not mean "without dependencies of 
any other code whatsoever". There's also Boost.Python, Boost.MPI, 
Boost.Filesystem, Boost.Asio, etc., which all depend on some external API.

> i focus on delivering a portable generic self-contained solution without
> dependancies on third-party entities

Interesting. Have you looked at MTL4?

Cheers,

Rutger