Hey, thanks guys! I'm shooting myself in the foot a little bit as an author of a somewhat competing library (HPPC), but I do think fastutil is a great choice for Mahout. HPPC is suitable for very specific applications and we will continue its development (because we use it at Carrot Search internally), but Sebastiano Vigna has been working on fastutil for a long time (and with applications to high performance applications as well, so it's been tested in trenches). I know of at least two other companies that use fastutil in production and are very happy with the results.
Dawid On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 3:56 PM, Benson Margulies <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a lot of respect for Dawid's judgement and experiments; I'm > just a plumber. I've moved all my day-job code to fastutil and been > pleased. > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Sean Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't have a strong opinion one way or the other -- would rather defer to >> your judgment in particular. >> What we do need is a relatively stable and maintained collections module. >> mahout-collections is quite an admirable start in the direction, though if >> we'd all find it easier to just leverage someone else's work, sounds good to >> me. I like getting rid of work. >> >> We're already on Java 6 for Hadoop in core, so I see no real reason not to >> make that across the board. >> >> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Benson Margulies >> <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> fastutil for 0.6? >>> >>> Do we need to keep java 1.5 for 0.6? If so, we have to deal with the >>> retroweaver question. >>> >> > >
