A gentle critque..

[Walter Bright]

Paulo Herrera wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>
>>>> About native libraries
>>>> ----------------------
>>>> I think the way to go is to create QUALITY native D libraries. I 
>>>> think we usually overestimate the cost of porting/developing native 
>>>> libraries.
>>>
>>> I agree. When porting a library
>>> (a) there isn't any algorithm development (not much 'thinking' time 
>>> required);
>>> (b) it's very easy to test (you can run test cases against the 
>>> original version);
>>> (c) the D version is frequently greatly superior to the original.
>>
>> Hmm. Is there a 'canonical' Fortran numerics library with a solid test 
>> suite that could be translated to D as a showcase project?
> 
> Do you have some idea in mind?

I am not familiar with the various Fortran libraries out there, so I 
have no specific one in mind.


> If we can make a port of that library to D and show that it performs 
> close to  SPARSKIT, that would be a good demonstration of D capabilities 
> for numerical computing.

Want to get started on it? <g>