Barry Smith <[email protected]> writes:
>    Should we have a matrix class based on this software; rather than custom 
> MatShell for each person? If we did this what are the best tensor contraction 
> libraries to use? What are the abstractions? Especially when it is sparse 
> matrices in sparse matrices?

CTF is the best I know for what it does.  But I think it might be a bit
like MatFFTW in that a supported Mat impl would be a maintenance burden
of marginal value.  (I would argue that the most common use of FFT in
scientific computing is in the form of a convolution, for which the
abstraction leaks and needs to be composed anyway.)  I could be wrong,
and if someone is using CTF and sees a good way to make a useful MatCTF
and has the energy to do so, I think it would be welcome.

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