At Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:07:20 -0600, Gerard Jungman wrote: > Sounds reasonable. I'm tired of waiting for them to produce > something attractive. But what do we do?
I think we should continue with simple linear algebra implementations until there is a major change in the state of the art, like being able to generate all LAPACK routines automatically with the FLAME tools or similar. > Of course, I like things to be neat and tidy; that's just me. Maybe > other people don't mind having to cobble things together, but I have > a very low threshold for that. There's no work I do that is so > compelling that I don't care how painful it is to get the answer. > And I always want better tools. The history of the field, and computing in general, doesn't give much cause for optimism here unfortunately. -- Brian
