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well i love fp, but the reality is that fp is not even an afterthought in the libraries that underlie numerical computation--most significantly, BLAS, LAPACK. T
by doug1001 9y ago
well i love fp, but the reality is that fp is not even an afterthought in the libraries that underlie numerical computation--most significantly, BLAS, LAPACK. Those libraries rely entirely on mutable data structures.
it has very little to do with their age--fact is these libraries are continuously updated (last major re-write for LAPACK was 2008; what's more, fp is not new, it was a well-known paradigm when, say MKL was conceived (2003), but apparently even the most cleverly designed persistent data structures (eg, Scala's vector) aren't enough.