Re: [boost] Documentation for uBLAS
Sathyam Vellal <[email protected]>
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Thank you Nasos. I'll certainly refer to the resources you've suggested. Regards -- Sathyam M Vellal Computer Science and Engineering, P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, India On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Nasos Iliopoulos <[email protected]>wrote: > Sathyam, > I don't think there is any documentation that describes uBlas mechanism > itself and if you want to really see how it works I would suggest to try > following the execution using a debugger. > > Before that though you will need to know about the programming idiom uBlas > is using known as "Expression templates". This techniques is used to build > the algebraic expression tree at COMPILE time and hence allow for avoidance > of temporaries amongst other things. There are a few things online but the > very best resource I know that describes expression templates (with a very > clean linear algebra implementation ) is " C++ Templates - The Complete > Guide" by David Vandevoorde and Nicolai M. Josuttis ( Chapter 18) > > Additionally the Wikipedia entry has an implementation of a sort > Expression templates mechanism that is actually based on uBlas and I also > find it an excellent read: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression_templates > > To understand how all those work you may need to consult some of those > resources and most importantly make a small implementation of your own - > which is not terribly difficult once you get the underlying principles. > > Best, > Nasos > > > > On 04/17/2013 09:03 PM, Sathyam Vellal wrote: > > Hello, > > I've been trying to get acquainted with the Boost.uBLAS codebase. To be > honest, I face a little difficulty in trying to understand the underlying > model of the design. Is there any resource which can help me ? > > Thank you > -- > Sathyam M Vellal > > Computer Science and Engineering, > P.E.S. Institute of Technology, > Bangalore, India > > > _______________________________________________ > ublas mailing [email protected]://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ublas > Sent to: [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > ublas mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ublas > Sent to: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ ublas mailing list [email protected] http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/ublas Sent to: [email protected]