Hi,
This is part 2 to the below. So initially I was thinking about having a Vector
with map, reduce, etc. operations on it. The map function would handle the
mapping of two vectors to a third (Actually just mapping one vector onto
another). The reduce function would reduce either the vector or two vectors to
a single value. The dotProduct method would be an example.
However once Lambda functions are implemented they could just be used
standalone. For example:
public static Function<Vector, Double> Norm = (v) -> {
return Math.sqrt(
IntStream.range(0, v.getDimension()).mapToDouble(i ->
Math.pow(v.getEntry(i), 2)).sum());
};
RUNTIME:
double norm = Norm.apply(v);
// Faster
double norm = ParallelNorm.apply(v);
So it's possible to have a reduce interface on the vector like this:
double = v.reduce(Norm)
That does the same thing, but it's pointless and harder to explain. Also (I
have not tested yet) but just by the looks of it it seems the above Norm
function can be applied to any implementation of Vector. Thus if the vector
interface is dead simple and only supplies getEntry(i), setEntry(i),
getDimension() that's good enough for just about everything...I think...famous
last words .
Cheers,
Ole
On 01/05/2016 10:35 AM, Ole Ersoy wrote:
Hi,
I'm attempting a more minimalistic array vector design and just thought I'd
float a partial API to see what you think. The below methods are both
'mapToSelf' by default. If the user wants a new vector, she should first clone
the vector and then call the map method (vector.clone().map(...)).
public void map(BiFunction<Double, Double, Double> function, Vector v) {
Arrays.setAll(data, i -> function.apply(data[i], v.getEntry(i)));
}
public void parallelMap(BiFunction<Double, Double, Double> function, Vector
v) {
Arrays.parallelSetAll(data, i -> function.apply(data[i],
v.getEntry(i)));
}
The above two functions (Left the dimension check out) allow you to "Plug in" a
lambda function to perform the mapping. For example if you want to perform addition, you
would use the addition BiFunction like this:
public static BiFunction<Double, Double, Double> add = (x, y) -> {
return x
+ y;
};
RUNTIME:
vector2.map(add, vector1);
Then the same for subtraction, multiplication, etc. I'm thinking the static
BiFunction instances can go in the Arithmetic module. That way the map methods
can use both checked and unchecked arithmetic operations. I hoping that this
will also make the FieldVector and RealVector implementations more efficient
from a code sharing viewpoint and symmetric from an API perspective.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Ole
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