Re: [eigen] Re: Eigen 2, expression templates, and tvmet

[Andre Krause <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Benoît Jacob wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 May 2007 11:16:27 Andre Krause wrote:
>> hello benoit, i like the idea to stand on tvmets shoulders! i like
>> tvmet, we are using it internally for a small simulation project.
> 
> Very good! If you have time, your experience with tvmet can be very useful to 
> us. I'll post a TODO soon so everybody can see if there's something he wants 
> to help with.
> 
>> but tvmet is missing some stuff (for example pseudoinverse calculation),
>> that hopefully will then be available with Eigen2.
> 
> adding that to my mental TODO...
> 
>> could you keep the number of include files low?
> 
> That depends on what you can "low", but as you know tvmet already is much more 
> complex and has a much larger number of include files than eigen1. So will be 
> Eigen2. On top of that, there will also be the GMM wrapper. So I'm afraid the 
> number of include files won't be exactly "low" :) but that's life, one gets 
> nothing for nothing :)

i understand that. a clean design requires multiple header files..
but then i request a "eigen2.h" or "eigen2_allinc.h" that includes all
header files. i just dont like it to have to include 10 different
headers just to have everything at hand.

> 
>> and please, no c++ files 
>> if possible. what i most like about boost, tvmet and other template
>> libraries is, that one does not need to link with a library.
> 
> Yes, I can say that Eigen will remain a pure-template-library, i.e. no binary 
> library to link to. Only header files.
> 
>> anyway - i am eager to see eigen2, it will definitely rock! tvmet was
>> very very well designed, i liked everything about it! eigen2 can only
>> get better!
> 
> Thanks for the encouraging words :) I'm currently doing a general cleanup and 
> CMake-ification of TVMET before I actually start with Eigen2.
> 
> -Benoit
>