Designing a matrix library for D

[Jared via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 24 June 2014 at 03:29:52 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
>
> Using lapack/blas as the backend would guarantee good 
> performance,
> though I'm not sure if the Phobos maintainers would be too 
> thrilled at
> the idea, after the fiasco with libcurl.
>

It is straightforward with "version" blocks to support multiple 
backends at compile time, even including a pure D version (lower 
performance but always works). One of our internal libraries 
supports either ATLAS/BLAS (for dev boxes) or MKL (for production 
big iron) in this way. We just change a makefile variable to use 
"--version=ATLAS" or "--version=MKL".

J