DIP80: phobos additions

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 13/06/2015 10:35 p.m., Tofu Ninja wrote:
> On Saturday, 13 June 2015 at 08:45:20 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
>> The tiny subset of numerical linear algebra that is relevant for
>> graphics (mostly very basic operations, 2,3 or 4 dimensions) is not at
>> all representative of the whole. The algorithms are different and the
>> APIs are often necessarily different.
>>
>> Even just considering scale, no one sane calls in to BLAS to multiply
>> a 3*3 matrix by a 3 element vector, simultaneously no one sane
>> *doesn't* call in to BLAS or an equivalent to multiply two 500*500
>> matrices.
>
> I think there is a conflict of interest with what people want. There
> seem to be people like me who only want or need simple matrices like glm
> to do basic geometric/graphics related stuff. Then there is the group of
> people who want large 500x500 matrices to do weird crazy maths stuff.
> Maybe they should be kept separate? In which case then we are really
> talking about adding two different things. Maybe have a std.math.matrix
> and a std.blas?

IMO simple matrix is fine for a standard library. More complex highly 
specialized math library yeah no. Not enough gain for such a complex code.

Where as matrix/vector support for e.g. OpenGL now that will have a high 
visibility to game devs.