I just took a look at their website: http://mplapack.sourceforge.net/
* I'm personally confused about the licensing (may be a reflection on me, not mplapack). The MBLAS part is BSD, but the MPLAPACK part is LGPL v3+, but the authors say they are going to replace this later. But with what? They list "Including in a package system like FreeBSD ports" in their future goals, though this doesn't necessarily imply they are moving towards BSD licensing. * Some nonsense about GMP (and incidentally no mention of MPIR - note how many other bignum libraries *are* mentioned). * From a code quality point of view, their code looks pretty good to me, commented well, in english. I didn't do an extensive survey though. * They implement a lot of functionality, however I wouldn't personally use this as a metric. Sergey Bochkanov's automatic code generation is exceptionally clever and should allow him to be streets ahead of mplapack very quickly * I would benchmark carefully I became acquainted with ALGLIB and Sergey through his interaction with the MPIR project. Even if at some point mplapack is better than ALGLIB, I reckon Sergey would be exceptionally helpful in addressing that. He's a smart guy and very supportive of what Sage is doing! Bill. On 21 May, 00:48, Jason Grout <jason-s...@creativetrax.com> wrote: > A while ago someone talked about incorporating ALGLIB into Sage to > provide, among other things, multiprecision linear algebra. I just saw > another package that does this: > > http://mplapack.sourceforge.net/ > > Does anyone have experience with mplapack? How does it compare to > ALGLIB in linear algebra (for algorithms that are implemented in both)? > > Thanks, > > Jason > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL:http://www.sagemath.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
