If matrix libraries were available, I'm sure they would be widely used. Another related thing to consider is some form of rule-based math library with capabilities similar to the BigDecimal and BigInteger classes in java. These are extremely useful for science, but not fully developed (such as into math functions). The Java implementation is also quite slow. However, it is a wonderful thing to be able to do math with actual numbers (avoiding bit conversion errors), automatic checks for underflow and overflow, and virtually unlimited precision. A language with those capabilities at fast speeds would be highly competitive.
Cheers! John -----Original Message----- From: Igor Peshansky [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:29 AM To: Ganesh V Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [X10-users] query on matrix libraries Ganesh V <[email protected]> wrote on 06/23/2009 12:24:27 AM: > Hi Igor, > > Thanks for the earlier reply on var / val query. > > I have been experimenting with x10 a bit more, and was wondering if > there are any specific matrix libraries included in x10, or are > planned to be included? Hi, Ganesh, Questions of this sort are better asked on the X10 users list. We were not planning to include any matrix/vector classes in the X10 standard libraries, though they were mentioned in some discussions. They are reasonably easy to implement at the user level. Are you referring simply to abstract types with the right behavior, or are you interested specifically in bindings to a BLAS library? Igor -- Igor Peshansky (note the spelling change!) IBM T.J. Watson Research Center XJ: No More Pain for XML's Gain (http://www.research.ibm.com/xj/) X10: Parallel Productivity and Performance (http://x10.sf.net/) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.o rg _______________________________________________ X10-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/x10-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ X10-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/x10-users
