Designing a matrix library for D

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 6/23/14, 8:46 PM, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Tuesday, 24 June 2014 at 03:29:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>
>> a compile-time DSL instead of hack tricks like expression
>
> That sounds like a it will be very odd to use and most likely have very
> little benefit. I think most people would agree that matrix math is a
> good use case for operator overloading.

Just a thought - a nice thing would be to have a shell backed up by 
multiple engines (LAPACK, BLAS, SIMD-based, naive etc), similarly to 
what LINQ does with virtualizing data access. Then possessors of various 
linear algebra libraries would be able to link with them and use them.

Andrei