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Subject: Re: [ublas] New uBLAS maintainer
From: Marco Guazzone (marco.guazzone_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-15 06:38:07
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 9:44 PM, David Bellot <david.bellot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Dear uBLAS users,
>
> recently Gunter Winkler asked for someone to take over the maintenance of
> the uBLAS library. As a fervent user of uBLAS and a strong believer in Open
> Source and Free Software, I decided to propose myself as the new duty man. I
> will therefore have the honor to be in charge of uBLAS and will do my best
> to make uBLAS reach its goals of versatility, performance and ease of use.
>
> Let me quickly introduce myself: my name is David Bellot, I hold a PhD in
> Computer Science and do research (currently in the finance world) on Machine
> Learning and probabilistic artificial intelligence, hence my strong interest
> in uBLAS.
>
> First of all, I want to say a big Thank You to Gunter for all the great work
> he did on uBLAS and a personal Thank You to help me getting on-board and
> starting my new duty as uBLAS maintainer.
>
Hi David,
Thank you for taking care of uBLAS maintenance.
I join to your big thanks to Gunter which contributed to keep uBLAS
live and riding the wave.
> I would also like to talk about potential projects for the next versions of
> uBLAS. For that purpose, I hope everybody will be interested in bringing new
> ideas, wishes and even new pieces of code:
>
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Please also take a look at tickets.
There are some of them which already contain code for new features.
For instance, I've implemented a diag function (similar to the one
found in Matlab)
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3510
It would be interesting (at least for me) to get some feedback
Also, Gunter's Web site has very interesting piece of codes:
http://guwi17.de/ublas/examples/
I wish if they might be integrated into uBLAS.
>
> (4) another hot topic which is a recurrent complain about uBLAS: the product
> of 2 matrices. Do we want prod(A,B) or A*B. Let's think about it because
> other libraries implemented A*B in a very efficient manner too.
I think this is more a user-level dev-level view.
Honestly, I can live without A*B, especially if its implementation
would take much work.
I think it is better to have new features (operations, solvers, ...)
than eye-candy notation.
Cheers,
-- Marco