A gentle critque..
Walter Bright
newshound at digitalmars.com
Tue May 16 09:37:41 PDT 2006
Don Clugston wrote:
>> About native libraries
>> ----------------------
>> I think the way to go is to create QUALITY native D libraries. I think
>> we usually overestimate the cost of porting/developing native libraries.
>
> I agree. When porting a library
> (a) there isn't any algorithm development (not much 'thinking' time
> required);
> (b) it's very easy to test (you can run test cases against the original
> version);
> (c) the D version is frequently greatly superior to the original.
Hmm. Is there a 'canonical' Fortran numerics library with a solid test
suite that could be translated to D as a showcase project?
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