on Tue Apr 03 2012, delryn-AT-gmx.de wrote:
Good day,
i started using boost one month ago. Now i saw that boost is offering uBLAS to use/manipulate matrices. So my question is: Why is the wheel invented totally new? The uBLAS-Team even writes that they focus an "correct algorithm" and that "performance will be improved later".
Why cant boost simply adpot http://arma.sourceforge.net/
or Newmat 11:
http://www.robertnz.net/nm11.htm#refer
I used Newmat in many complex commercial projects where performance was very important. Newmat is easy to use and I dont now any bugs. Maybe the interface is not totally stl compatible, but this library is very easy and intuitive to use.
What do you think about this?
It would be nice to have better linear algebra libraries in Boost. The problem is that Boost doesn't "simply adopt" anything; that's not how we operate. Someone would have to submit the library to the formal review process (http://www.boost.org/community/reviews.html) and take responsibility for its future in Boost. Best regards, -- Dave Abrahams BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com