Re: Matrix Template Library

[David Bateman]

address@hidden wrote:
> About one year ago I have used a specialised library for matrix 
> manipulation in c++.
> Called "The Matrix Template Library".
> The idea behind this library is to programm it on a similar way to 
> the STL. Some performance comparisions on the MTL-page shows you that 
> this is as fast as fortran code.
> The license is "The MTL "Artistic License"" which seems to be 
> similar to the lgpl. The homepage isn't up to date but you can find 
> it here
>
> http://www.osl.iu.edu/research/mtl/
>
> maybe this library can be used to improve octave in any way.
>
> Michael
>
>   
The Matrix Template Library is essential a replacement for the octave
MArray, MArray2, and MArrayN, classes, so using it in octave basically
comes down to replacing all of these classes. The octave classes are
also pretty good and so there'd have to be a very good reason to replace
these with MTL. A better approach might be to look at the MTL code and
see if there is any optimizations that we can use in the octave native
matrix classes.

Regards
David


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