Wow cool, love the closure support! On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:07 PM, Dawid Weiss <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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. > >>> > >> > > > > > -- Yee Yang Li Hector http://hectorgon.blogspot.com/ (tech + travel) http://hectorgon.com (book reviews)
