Linear algebra library

[Denis Shelomovskij]

09.04.2013 17:52, Maksim Zholudev пишет:
> Hello!
>
> It looks like SciD [1] is obsolete and work on its reincarnation [2]
> have not been started yet.
>
> Here is yet another linear algebra library for D:
> https://github.com/MaksimZh/linalg/wiki
>
> It was inspired by proposal [2] but has some differences:
>
> 1) Support of immutable data and pure functions.
>
> 2) No reference counting, no copy-on-write.
> - It looks completely incompatible with immutable matrices.
> - Unpredictable GC allocations make people sad [3].
> So matrices act like built-in D arrays: slice is a view, copying is
> forced with `.dup` etc.
>
> 3) Support of backends that can be enabled with compiler options (e.g.
> -version=linalg_backend_lapack) and add optimization and new features.
> The library works even without any backend.
> In current (pre-alpha) version this feature is just outlined: enabling
> LAPACK adds evaluation of eigenvalues for `Complex!double` matrices and
> activates corresponding unittests.
>
>
> The library now looks inconsistent because I focus mainly on the
> features needed in my work. Probably I've made some bad
> design/implementation decisions due to lack of experience.
>
> Any ideas and advices are welcome.
>
>
> References:
> [1] https://github.com/kyllingstad/scid
> [2] https://github.com/cristicbz/scid/wiki/GSoC-2012-Proposal
> [3] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/kjo7id$22jk$1@digitalmars.com

What about to post such a good news also in digitalmars.D.announce?

Also, if we are talking about matrices, very sad a solution for 
enhancement 6798 [1] isn't merged yet.

[1] http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6798

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Denis V. Shelomovskij