Unfortunately, my idx will be computed on the fly and there's zero chance 
that it would be a range. Is there a plan to support more general indexing 
in subarrays and/or ArrayView?


On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 6:13:16 PM UTC-4, Andreas Noack wrote:
>
> C[:,idx] creates a copy, so gemm updates a copy of part of C and then 
> discarts it after the computation. sub(C,:,idx) creates a view instead of a 
> copy.
>
> 2015-03-29 18:10 GMT-04:00 Dominique Orban <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>>:
>
>> Sorry there was a typo in my example. It should have been
>>
>> BLAS.gemm!('N', 'N', 1.0, A[:,idx], B[idx,idx], 1.0, C[:,idx]);
>>
>> for the dimensions to work out.
>>
>> The gemm! command works fine, is happy with the dimensions, and produces 
>> the correct update. As far as I can tell,
>>
>> C1 = C[:,idx];
>> BLAS.gemm!('N', 'N', 1.0, A[:,idx], B[:,idx], 1.0, C1);
>>
>> does what it's supposed to do, it just doesn't update C (which is awkward 
>> for a ! function, though I realize there's something else going on here).
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, March 29, 2015 at 5:56:27 PM UTC-4, Andreas Noack wrote:
>>>
>>> I think that you could use sub(A,:,2:2:4) for BLAS, but not 
>>> sub(A,:,[2,4]) because the indexing has to be with ranges for BLAS to be 
>>> able to extract the right elements of the matrix.
>>>
>>> 2015-03-29 17:34 GMT-04:00 Dominique Orban <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>>> Sorry if this is another [:] kind of question, but I can't seem to find 
>>>> the right syntax to call BLAS.gemm! on part of an array. The piece of code
>>>>
>>>> julia> n = 10; m = 5; idx = [2, 4];
>>>> julia> C = rand(n, m); A = rand(n, m); B = rand(m, m);
>>>> julia> BLAS.gemm!('N', 'N', 1.0, A[:,idx], B[:,idx], 1.0, C[:,idx]);
>>>>
>>>> won't modify C. I'm simply trying to do
>>>>
>>>> C[:,idx] += A[:,idx] * B[:,idx];
>>>>
>>>> What's the right syntax here?
>>>>
>>>> It seems ArrayViews.jl might be the way to go, but it doesn't let me do 
>>>> view(A, :, idx).
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>

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