Well, I also do not want to re-invent the wheel. Some of these
libraries are really optimized for both memory and  speed (yes, I will
need both) and already provide a great deal of useful functionality
that I would otherwise have to implement myself. I just want to make
sure I am doing it right and avoid problems later...

On Jan 27, 11:11 pm, Ben Mabey <b...@benmabey.com> wrote:
> On 1/27/12 9:11 AM, Walter van der Laan wrote:> Are you somehow required to 
> use the Java library?
>
> > Otherwise you could also use a Clojure map as a sparse matrix.
> > This will be much easier to implement.
>
> Using a clojure map to store a sparse matrix is not a good solution if
> you plan on doing any serious computation on it.  Reason being is that
> clojure's collections don't yet support primitive types (with the
> exception of vector, but most operations on it will result in boxing).

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