AbstractMatrix On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Sebastien Brisard <sebastien.bris...@m4x.org > wrote:
> 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 > >
