On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.mol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ian Henriksen > <insertinterestingnameh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Maybe I should clarify a little about why eigen is a good place to start. > > According to <a > > href="http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/TopicLazyEvaluation.html";> > http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/TopicLazyEvaluation.html</a> > > it > > already takes care of things like the elimination of temporary variables > > and common subexpression reduction at compile time. This should make it > > possible to compile array expressions in Cython without having to > > re-implement those sorts of optimizations. Ideally we would just have to > > map memory view operations to corresponding equivalents from eigen. It's > > not yet clear to me how to do things with arbitrary-dimensional arrays or > > broadcasting, but, given some more time, a solution may present itself. > > -Ian > > cilkplus is what you want, not Eigen. > > But if you are serious about number crunching, learn Fortran 95. > > > Sturla > > _______________________________________________ > cython-devel mailing list > cython-devel@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel > Cilk Plus would also work really nicely for this. Thanks for the suggestion. Fortran is a really great language for this sort of thing, but I don't think I'm ready to tackle the difficulties of using it as a backend for array arithmetic in Cython. It would be a really great feature to have later on though. Thanks! -Ian
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