Re: ideas for compiler project

2002-02-17 Thread Jay Cox
On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Dylan Thurston wrote: On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:38:59PM +0100, Bjorn Lisper wrote: I think MATLAB's matrix language provides about the right level of abstraction for a high-level matrix language. You can for instance write things like Y = inv(A)*B to assign

Re: ideas for compiler project

2002-02-16 Thread Stephen J Bevan
Jerzy Karczmarczuk writes: Steven Bevan wrote interesting numeric routines a long time ago. Actually I did little more than transliterate the algorithm descriptions I found in a book on numerical analysis. I know next to nothing about numerical analysis so I have no idea if they are

Re: ideas for compiler project

2002-02-16 Thread Dylan Thurston
On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 03:38:59PM +0100, Bjorn Lisper wrote: I think MATLAB's matrix language provides about the right level of abstraction for a high-level matrix language. You can for instance write things like Y = inv(A)*B to assign to Y the solution of Ax = B. ... Just a comment on

Re: ideas for compiler project

2002-01-31 Thread Eray Ozkural (exa)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 25 January 2002 13:25, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: Block recursive Schemes in Matlab are easier than in C++. Implementing pyramid algorithms is not difficult. Slicing, reshaping, cloning, etc. of matrices are very powerful tools, but they

Re: ideas for compiler project

2002-01-25 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Simon Peyton-Jones: Lots of people have observed that Haskell might be a good scripting language for numerical computation. In complicated numerical applications, the program may spend most of its time in (say) matrix multiply, which constitutes a tiny fraction of the code for the

RE: ideas for compiler project

2002-01-24 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
Message- | From: Hal Daume III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: 22 January 2002 22:00 | To: Haskell Mailing List | Subject: ideas for compiler project | | | Hi All, | | I'm currently taking a class in compiler optimization for | high performance computing (i.e., parallel architectures

Re: ideas for compiler project

2002-01-24 Thread Bjorn Lisper
Simon: Lots of people have observed that Haskell might be a good scripting language for numerical computation. In complicated numerical applications, the program may spend most of its time in (say) matrix multiply, which constitutes a tiny fraction of the code for the application. So write the

RE: ideas for compiler project

2002-01-24 Thread George Russell
One thing I would very much like to see done in a functional language is fault-tree analysis. A fault tree has as nodes various undesirable events, with as top node some disaster (for example, nuclear reactor meltdown) and as leaves various faults which can occur, with their probabilities