Designing a matrix library for D

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 09:09:03PM +0000, bearophile via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> H. S. Teoh:
> 
> >The key to success, then, lies in how we design the generic matrix
> >API. If we do it right, then it should be easy to implement features
> >like compile-time size verifications, etc.. Otherwise it can be very
> >painful.
> 
> One point of my post was to see if it could be useful to extend and
> improve the current D type system. Apparently you are saying this is
> not needed for efficiency reasons (but perhaps some type system
> improvements could be useful to reduce template bloat with the usage
> of this matrix library. The idea is to perform the compile-time tests
> of the sizes, and then remove such types in most cases, avoiding the
> template bloat. There are manual ways to do this, but here it's better
> to receive help from the type system).
[...]

I'm not against using / extending the type system to improve performance
or reduce template bloat.  But it would be far more ambitious than to
implement something that works with the current language.


T

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