Oh, as a side note to Benson -- your effort on porting these COLT collections is appreciated from more than one angle, regardless of the HPPC discussion. We have been using COLT's math/ matrix packages in C2 and had a long-open issue of getting rid of the LGPL parts. Solved now, thanks!
http://issues.carrot2.org/browse/CARROT-614 Dawid On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Dawid Weiss <dawid.we...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let's do this, guys: I have finished the implementation of basic data > structures. I will try to merge this code with Carrot2, replacing PCJ; > this should give me an additional level of confidency that everything > is working fine. I plan to have this step done by Friday. > > Then, I will make this code available as a patch (ZIP) file on Mahout > JIRA for you to have a look at. I am more than fine in maintaining it > as part of Mahout (and reverting my active committer status), but we > would need to make sure it's a separate deliverable (separate JAR; > mahout-hppc; high performance primitive collections... or something). > > Hosting this project in Mahout will have the additional bonus of > polishing the API for computational code. If folks decide it can have > the life of its own, we can ask for a separate sub-space in the > commons project. > > Sounds good? I'll get back to you on Friday/Saturday. > Dawid > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Jake Mannix <jake.man...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Sean Owen <sro...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> It sure feels like it can and should be a module, which depends on no >>> other Mahout modules. The only barrier is someone willing to do it -- >>> and looks like we have that. >>> >> >> Right now, mahout-math depends on no other modules, and as of last night, >> also does not depend on hadoop (yay!), so this should be getting easier to >> do. >> >> The barrier to entry as an eventual commons project is that it still has way >> more dependencies than typical commons projects, it looks like at first >> glance. >> >> -jake >> >
