Awesome mir/glas package

[Ilya Yaroshenko via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 07:42:13 UTC, Picaud Vincent wrote:
> Just a word to say that I find the glas benchmark results and 
> design awesome!
>
> https://github.com/libmir/mir
>
> I am new to D but I think this kind of developments has the 
> potential to attract a lot of people doing numerical 
> computations.
>
> I also would like to mention the "libFlame" approach used to 
> describe and implement linear algebra algorithms like LU, 
> Cholesky... decompositions.
>
> https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~flame/web/methodology.html
>
> IMHO the ndslice is a perfect match to benefit from this 
> methodology.
>
> I hope the best future for glas, it is very attractive.
>
> Vincent

Thank you, Vincent!

Yes, I will use libFlame approach, it is a really good. In the 
same time Dlang is more user-friendly for SIMD optimization. GLAS 
routines probably will follow hypothetical (it is closed source) 
Intel MKL approach but without unrolled loops. LibFLAME has 2 
kinds of algorithms: blocking and unblocking. GLAS where it is 
possible will have 3 kinds: tiny unblocking, register (SIMD) 
blocking, and normal blocking.

Mir GLAS was moved to separate repo [1]. It is a "better C" 
library now. This means it is written in D but does not requre 
DRuntime. It also has standart BLAS API, so GLAS will be able to 
replace BLAS in already existing C / Fortran infrastructure.

[1] https://github.com/libmir/mir-glas

Best regards,
Ilya