[GitHub] incubator-spark pull request: [Proposal] Adding sparse data suppor...

[MLnick]

Github user MLnick commented on the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/incubator-spark/pull/575#issuecomment-35070192
  
    I for one would prefer to use netlib-java, whether it is via MTJ or Breeze.
    I've used both and find the MTJ API pretty good and with good sparse
    support (though this was a few years ago admittedly). Breeze has a nicer
    more "Matlab" DSL but as I mentioned there's no reason not to wrap MTJ in a
    lighter-weight DSL that is not heavy on implicits, if for performance
    reasons it is desirable.
    
    
    On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Sam Halliday 
<notificati...@github.com>wrote:
    
    > @MLnick <https://github.com/MLnick> I have it on good authority (from the
    > author of JBLAS) that he consider netlib-java to exceed his original
    > goals for JBLAS. I am utterly confused why commons-math would accept JBLAS
    > but reject netlib-java as a backend, given that JBLAS doesn't even have a
    > java backend and they were concerned that the netlib-java java backend
    > could not be compiled without classfile manipulation.
    >
    > I'll hold fire on the license request until you decide based on technical
    > merit. I don't anticipate any problems: in fact I believe he would be
    > delighted that MTJ is continuing.
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