DIP80: phobos additions

[Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d]

On 06/13/2015 12:35 PM, 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.

(It's neither weird nor crazy.)

> Maybe they should be kept separate?

I think there's no point to that. Just have dynamically sized and fixed 
sized versions. Why should they be incompatible? It's the same concept.