On 1/31/13 10:38 AM, Don wrote:
The basic problem is that there are hundreds of potential numeric
algorithms and data structures of equal importance to these ones. In
fact, the total number of mathematical algorithms is probably a
substantial fraction of the total algorithms in computer science!
Even a module which contained only FFT, could be quite large, once it
included all the important related transforms.
A possible solution would be to make std.numeric a knot for several
others, or convert it to a package.
I'm not sure that we can solve this without addressing the high-level
question: What is the scope of Phobos?
How big will it eventually get? Twice its current size? Ten times? A
hundred times?
I think the current trend is to go for large libraries.
Both SmallPhobos and LargePhobos are reasonable, but we do have to pick
one. Currently we have aspects of both approaches, but they aren't
compatible.
LargePhobos. Agreed that we need to package-ize some of the current modules.
Andrei
