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Dawid Weiss commented on MAHOUT-6:
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A quickie:

1. Make many, many rounds through the same code and throw away initial 
observations. JVMs tend to optimize code after some time (and compile it to 
native code of course). A single run is definitely not enough.

2. There is no HashMap on primitive types in the JDK. It's done on boxed types 
-- while these yield to low-level optimizations, I doubt you'll get much 
improvement.

> Need a matrix implementation
> ----------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAHOUT-6
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-6
>             Project: Mahout
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Ted Dunning
>            Assignee: Grant Ingersoll
>         Attachments: MAHOUT-6a.diff, MAHOUT-6b.diff, MAHOUT-6c.diff, 
> MAHOUT-6d.diff, MAHOUT-6e.diff, MAHOUT-6f.diff, MAHOUT-6g.diff, 
> MAHOUT-6h.patch, MAHOUT-6i.diff, MAHOUT-6j.diff, MAHOUT-6k.diff, 
> MAHOUT-6l.patch
>
>
> We need matrices for Mahout.
> An initial set of basic requirements includes:
> a) sparse and dense support are required
> b) row and column labels are important
> c) serialization for hadoop use is required
> d) reasonable floating point performance is required, but awesome FP is not
> e) the API should be simple enough to understand
> f) it should be easy to carve out sub-matrices for sending to different 
> reducers
> g) a reasonable set of matrix operations should be supported, these should 
> eventually include:
>     simple matrix-matrix and matrix-vector and matrix-scalar linear algebra 
> operations, A B, A + B, A v, A + x, v + x, u + v, dot(u, v)
>     row and column sums  
>     generalized level 2 and 3 BLAS primitives, alpha A B + beta C and A u + 
> beta v
> h) easy and efficient iteration constructs, especially for sparse matrices
> i) easy to extend with new implementations

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