Can you say more about your application? Mahout is a very young project and is known to be sub-standard in a number of respects due to youth. Depending on what you need, it might be excellent, or seriously deficient (at the moment). The deficiencies will be addressed over time, but full disclosure now is important.
Depending on what you need, an on-line learning system like vowpal might be much better for you. On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Tim Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > We're looking specifically at Mahout (on top of the other supporting Apache > projects). One of the roadblocks to moving in that direction is the concern > about Java performance. We could not go the Mahout direction if there was > no > way to use C/C++; since there is, we can bypass the "premature > optimization" > and run Mahout as designed, yet have the ability to fall back to custom C > code if the user's expectations are not met. > -- Ted Dunning, CTO DeepDyve
