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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