Re: Designing Perl 6 data crunching (was Re: n-dim matrices)

[email protected] (Christian Soeller) Thu, 31 Aug 2000 18:51:40 +1200
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language.data
Organization University of Auckland
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Jeremy Howard wrote:

> The 1st implementation of Perl 6 may not provide all the optimisations we've
> come to expect from our data crunching language of choice. For this reason
> maybe PDL will continue to exist independently in Perl 6 at least for a
> while, although a fair bit of rewriting will be required for the new XS, and
> to take advantage of the new syntax.

That what I'd envisaged. When straight Perl 6 + FFT/Slatec etc modules
are ready to take over PDL could be safely retired ;)

  Christian