On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 17:56:53 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 17:10:08 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 03:35:31 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
Humm, work on getting gl3n into phobos or work on my ODBC
driver manager. Tough choice.
I can only speak for myself. I'm sure there's a lot of value
in solid ODBC support. I use SQL some, but I use matrix math
more.
I'm not that familiar with gl3n, but it looks like it's meant
for the math used in OpenGL. My knowledge of OpenGL is
limited. I had some cursory interest in the developments of
Vulkan earlier in March, but without much of a background in
OpenGL I didn't follow everything they were talking about. I
don't think many other languages include OpenGL support in
their standard libraries (though I imagine game developers
would welcome it).
Matrix math is matrix math, it being for ogl makes no real
difference.
The tiny subset of numerical linear algebra that is relevant for
graphics (mostly very basic operations, 2,3 or 4 dimensions) is
not at all representative of the whole. The algorithms are
different and the APIs are often necessarily different.
Even just considering scale, no one sane calls in to BLAS to
multiply a 3*3 matrix by a 3 element vector, simultaneously no
one sane *doesn't* call in to BLAS or an equivalent to multiply
two 500*500 matrices.
