[squeak-dev] Smallapack

Nicolas Cellier nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com
Fri Jul 29 17:28:58 UTC 2016


2016-07-29 19:02 GMT+02:00 Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org>:

> First question:
>
> The Mac OS comes with Accelerate.Framework and that contains BLAS.
> But probably I still should compile those libraries, right?
>
>
No, it's better to link to accelerated library.
I don't have a Mac handy here to verify how to link to it though.
I'll be able to check latter in the evening


>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima
> <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
> > Thanks!
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Nicolas Cellier
> > <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi Yoshiki,
> >>
> >> Thanks for inquiring about Smallapack.
> >>
> >> This problem has been solved in 2011 as the post tells.
> >> Moreover, it was about alignment of squeak objects that was on multiple
> of 4
> >> on SqueakV3 memory.
> >> Spur is 8 byte aligned, so the problem would have also vanished without
> any
> >> patch for those being patient :)
> >>
> >> For the 15 arguments limit, Smallapack comes with it's own compiler, so
> it's
> >> a non issue.
> >> Maybe I should make the documentation more clear on
> >>
> https://github.com/nicolas-cellier-aka-nice/smallapack/wiki/SmallapackSqueak
> >> ?
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, there's no Sparse Matrix representation in Lapack.
> >> If you know of a good package for that, it could be integrated.
> >>
> >> If you have other questions, don't hesitate to ask.
> >>
> >> cheers
> >>
> >> Nicolas
> >>
> >> 2016-07-29 0:22 GMT+02:00 Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org>:
> >>>
> >>> I am trying to do a bit of linear algebra stuff that involves to solve
> >>> a sparse 2D matrix (for a variation of doing least square fit).
> >>>
> >>> There was a message from Nicolas:
> >>>
> >>>
> http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2011-August/161113.html
> >>>
> >>> Is this where it stands today, too?  It looks like that arg count
> >>> problem is still there in 5.0, but is it in a way non-issue as it is
> >>> still FFI based?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> -- Yoshiki
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > -- Yoshiki
>
>
>
> --
> -- Yoshiki
>
>
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