Re: [boost] different matrix library?

Subject: Re: [boost] different matrix library?
From: joel (joel.falcou_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-15 05:14:09

DE wrote:
> to everyone (especially joel falcou)
>   
Damn, I'm unmasked :p
> till now i actually don't see any critical flaws in the design
> implementation will be altered in any way of course
>   
Well, the problem is not the design per itself. What usually happens 
with such lib is that you have tons of different user types
that all want disjoint set of features.

Matrix lib always looks easy to do. Except they are not. I can toss you 
tons of questions : will you support openMP, threading, MPI, SIMD 
extensions, will you embed loop level optimization based on expression 
introspection ? Will you interface looks like matlab, maple or 
mathematica ? etc ... Not even counting the things we barely scratched 
like storage mode, allocation mode etc...

That's why I'm avoiding to comment your code cause I'm developing 
something similar but for a somehow different audience than yours and my 
view will prolly be radically different than yours.

I can also only reiterate the fact that I have a somehow large code base 
for such a thing that's maybe worth reusing. Three heads are better than 
two I think.

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