Re: BZDEV: About the egcs 1.0.x releases

From: Todd Veldhuizen (tveldhui@oonumerics.org)
Date: Wed Jun 10 1998 - 15:06:00 EST


Thanks for your comments, Theodore. I'll try to incorporate them
for the next snapshot.

> By the way, I have read the array documentation that comes
> with blitz. Here are a few minor typos and wishes for clarifications that might
> be interesting to correct. Also, I have changed the configure.in to
> incorporate a --with-blas option that allows the specification of the
> directory where to find the blas library. If there is some interest
> for that, I can retest and provide it.

Please, that sounds useful. However, note that blas are only used
for benchmarking comparisons (they aren't used internally by blitz).

Cheers,
Todd

>
> I'm really interested to use blitz (matrices and vectors
> essentially) soon... It looks great even though I have been doing
> only limited tests until now due to my compiler's limitations.
> If I can help with something, let me know.
>
> Theo.
>
>
> On page 6:
>
> bzsubsubsect(Performance tuning for the T3E)
> A missing \ ?
>
> On page 16:
>
> The figure is wrong: the upper cube corresponds to
> A(Range(5,7),Range(5,7),Range(0,2))
> The corresponding text is on page 17.
>
> On page 19:
>
> The last line of the first example should be
> << A(Range(fromStart,toEnd,2)) << endl; // [ 0 2 4 6 ]
>
> On page 29:
>
> What is COMMENT(void resize(Range r1,...);) ???
> A missing \ ?
>
> On page 34:
>
> Here's a plot of the resulting array:
> (there is no plot after). Maybe a use the figure number 1.3.
>
> On page 37:
>
> In the example, C = A/cast(B,float());
> Why does the default mecanism of adopting the type of the first
> argument is not invoked ??? Following the logic the result should
> be of the same type a A (i.e. an array of integers).
> A small explanantion would be great....
>
> On page 44:
>
> C = sum(A(i,k)*B(k,j),k);
>
> An explanation of what means the use of a thirdIndex in arrays that
> have only two indexes would be welcome... Is this the thirdIndex of C ??
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Theodore Papadopoulo
> Email: Theodore.Papadopoulo@sophia.inria.fr Tel: (33) 04 92 38 76 01
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