Ted, Mahout seems to be fairly large (!). What classes should I look at more specifically? Thanks! Sebastien
>The Colt package used a functional style to implement what you suggest. > This approach has been inherited by Mahout. > The basic idea is that there is an assign method that takes other arguments > and a function for combining the arguments. The function allows great > amounts of flexibility and promotes compositional style. A small amount of > special case code for common operations and the JVM's very impressive > ability to in-line code result in pretty fast operations. > The problem with this kind of approach is that users have a very hard time > understanding how to write code (where is the plus method, they say. where > is the element-wise max of two vectors?) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
