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- Subject: Re: [eigen] Indexes: why signed instead of unsigned?
- From: Andrea Arteaga <yo.eres@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 11:17:21 +0200
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Just a word from my recent experience about sparse matrices: I think it would be important to let the user decide the type of the indices. For dense matrices it doesn't matter if the indices are signed or unsigned, 32 or 64 bit, since the data structure does not contain data of this type (except for two numbers for rows and cols); but sparse matrices have one array for data, one for row indices and one for "column indices" (I'm talking about CRS storage), i.e. two arrays are involved in this decision.
I'm writing a library for interchanging data between C++ programs and Matlab, and I'm providing support for Eigen and Boost::ublas. This kind of problems are common in my work: having a template parameter to decide the type of the indices would be very useful.
Andrea Arteaga