Re: [Boost-Users] Re: uBLAS and fast matrix multiplication

From: Alexei Novakov (alexei_novakov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-12 12:50:35

Hi Kiril,

you wrote:

> > > If yes, are there plans to implement such
> algorithms?
> > 
> > There was some discussion regarding these on the
> boost ml during the review
> > IIRC, which convinced me that it's not necessary
> to provide them.
> 
> I was trying to find this discussion in archives,
> but no luck.
> Does anyone has it saved by chance? Or could anyone
> post quick recap on what were reasons to not to
> provide it?

Try to search
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Archives/boost/
the discussion was there during uBLAS formal review.

> The only reason I can think of is prevent
> unnecessary bloating of source code. But seems to me
> quite a lot of people actually need it.

uBLAS is evolving. Although I am not not using
Winograd/Strassen like algorithms in my work I do not
see anything bad in having those implemented for
uBLAS.

> Creating a separate header file for strassen would
> solve the problem with compiling it every time by
> users who don't really need it, would not it?
> 
> Regards,
> Kirill.

Regards,

Alexei.

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