Re: [Boost-users] Matrix of external data

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Matrix of external data
From: pmamales_at_[hidden]
Date: 2011-03-30 11:44:30

Thank you Rutger. I will look into it. Is there any documentation on the software?
Any examples for usage in the end of all?
Best Regards,
Petros
PS: I did try to get to the uBlas mailing list, followed the links and ended up where I started from. 
Maybe I did something wrong but retraced the steps and came out at the same point ;-))

---- Rutger ter Borg <rutger_at_[hidden]> wrote: 
> On 03/29/2011 10:40 PM, petros wrote:
> > Hi Rutger,
> > This seems like a very thorough effort. However, a bit tangential to my
> > questions, but that is all right.
> > I do have already written, a fair amount of code using uBlas matrices
> > and mkl and would like to clean
> > it up; so I cannot afford to redo everything now.
> > Also, if I may, there are benefits in wrapping the driver functions into
> > classes rather than functions
> > (albeit template), the primary one being wrapping all the necessary
> > workspace related functionality,
> > away from the user and solving the allocation size issues for them(
> > reusability can be served by the
> > persistence of the class members, now, a luxury that was not there in
> > fortran ).
> > Of course, if I had the bindings machinery at the time, things would be
> > much better for the wrapping.
> > Having said all that, I will definitely look more into it when I have
> > more time.
> > Thank you again,
> > Petros
> >
> 
> Hello Petros,
> 
> the free driver functions are there for convenience. Further down the 
> chain, classes help out with partial specialization, and all workspace 
> allocation (which can be either minimal, optimal, or user-defined). Also 
> noteworthy is that both Fortran-based backends (plain netlib, MKL, etc.) 
> and C-based backends (CBLAS, ATLAS's LAPACK functions) are supported by 
> setting a preprocessor variable only.
> 
> If you are looking for more detailed answers on your original questions, 
> your best bet might be to write to the ublas mailing list.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rutger
> 
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