Re: [Chicken-users] BLAS

[felix]

On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:48:39 -0400, TiM <address@hidden> wrote:

> greetings,
>
> i need to multiply many exponentially large complex valued matrices as 
> part of a solution that so far has been pure scheme.
>
> i was going to write my own matrix multiplier code and compile it with 
> chicken, but chicken doesn't support complex numbers, and i probably 
> can't write a top performing matrix multiplier in the time i have anyhow.
>
> BLAS (http://www.netlib.org/blas/) appears to be the appropriate tool, 
> but i have no experience with it, and no experience in calling external 
> libraries from scheme.
>
> has someone already written a chicken interface to BLAS that i could use?
>
> IMHO, built in BLAS support (like LUSH has) would be a pretty cool 
> addition to chicken.
>
> thanks for any help,
>
> TiM

Currently I know of no set of BLAS bindings for Chicken, but I guess
it should be not big problem to write a set of bindings for it.
(Tools like SWIG (http://www.swig.org) can help a lot when trying to
interface to external libraries)
I'm also working on an improved foreign-function interface to Chicken
that would make this even easier. Stay tuned...


cheers,
felix