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- Subject: Re: [eigen] FLENS C++ expression template Library has excellent documentation
- From: Rohit Garg <rpg.314@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:14:39 +0530
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Well it is just an interface, so the question of benching it is
somewhat fuzzy. But I think lapack SHOULD be there in the eigen bench
suite.
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 11:09 PM, Andre Krause <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> no, i just wanted to show you that lib, because it seems not to be known widely.
> and the documentation is very nice. it describes in an easy to follow manner how
> static polymorphism and expression templates and closures work - for people who
> have no idea about these techniques (like me ;-).
> and they describe very detailed their architecture - so it might be possible
> that some new ideas might arise .
>
> i know that the great thing about eigen2 is that you do NOT need to install blas
> and lapack !!
>
> so in summary, just adding another lib to the list of known , avtively developed
> linear algebra c++ libs. might also be interesting when it comes to benchmarking.
>
> kind regards, andre
>
>
> Benoit Jacob wrote:
>> 2009/4/17 Andre Krause <post@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Hello EIGEN - List,
>>>
>>> i want to point you to the lib FLENS. It provides a C++ Interface to BLAS and
>>> LAPACK in a expression template manner. I am mentioning flens here, because it
>>> may be a source of inspiration for further eigen2 design desicions.
>>
>> Do you have something specific in mind? We took the different approach
>> of replacing BLAS and LAPACK, rather than wrapping around them.
>> Although there is work left to do, we are at the point where, given
>> sufficient contributions, we can hope to quickly become a complete
>> enough replacement for a vast majority of users.
>>
>>> http://flens.sourceforge.net/
>>>
>>> here is the very extensive documentation:
>>>
>>> http://flens.sf.net/flensdoc.pdf
>>
>> Wow, he wrote a 160-page book ?! And that's not doxygen generated, but
>> completely handwritten and TeX'd ?! Seriously this is impressive, but
>> I don't see us doing that. We simply don't have time... unless someone
>> volunteers!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Benoit
>>
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Rohit Garg
http://rpg-314.blogspot.com/
Senior Undergraduate
Department of Physics
Indian Institute of Technology
Bombay