On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 01:43:24PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote: > > > On 22/05/10 10:48, Anders Logg wrote: > >On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 09:28:55AM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote: > >>Is anyone using the LAPACK linear algebra wrappers? Since they are > >>not subclasses of GenericFoo, I suggest that we remove them and > >>users use Armadillo (http://arma.sourceforge.net/) instead when > >>wanting to access LAPACK/ATLAS functions. Armadillo is very easy to > >>use. Any objections to removing the LAPACK wrappers? > >> > >>We have a Blueprint for wrapping Armadillo, but this would only be > >>worthwhile if we want to assemble into an Armadillo-based object. > >>Since Armadillo will most commonly be used for small matrices when > >>performance is critical, and expression templates are one of its > >>very attractive features, I don't see much point in wrapping it. > >> > >>Garth > > > >I agree it would be better to wrap Armadillo (or use it directly), but > >the LAPACK wrappers are used heavily in the Extrapolation class so > >they can't be removed until that has been ported to use Armadillo. > > > > Turned out that only a few lines needed to be changed.
Nice. -- Anders
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