Re: Nim Wrapper for ArrayFire

2016-12-30 Thread perturbation2
I'm really excited to see this! I'm using Nim for data science and I would love more wrappers and libraries :) There's also: [https://github.com/stavenko/nim-glm](https://github.com/stavenko/nim-glm) [https://github.com/unicredit/linear-algebra](https://github.com/unicredit/linear-algebra) if

Re: Nim Wrapper for ArrayFire

2016-12-30 Thread bitstorm
Hi - I think the reason for Julia being so fast in the matmul benchmark is that it uses many high performance c/c++ libraries in the background, I am not sure what they use for matrices but the julia result is probably just what you would get with c/c++ and blas or atlas. My guess is that with

Re: Nim Wrapper for ArrayFire

2016-12-30 Thread Libman
Excellent! :D I wonder how this would affect Nim's standing in the [kostya/benchmarks](https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks) (which were [just recently mentioned](http://forum.nim-lang.org///forum.nim-lang.org/t/2687) here), namely [matrix

Nim Wrapper for ArrayFire

2016-12-29 Thread bitstorm
Hello, I have just published a Nim wrapper for ArrayFire on github: [https://github.com/bitstormGER/ArrayFire-Nim](https://github.com/bitstormGER/ArrayFire-Nim) This is my first Nim project but the wrapper seems quite usable to me. I hope this helps (ones it is working properly) to make Nim