<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-07-29 19:02 GMT+02:00 Yoshiki Ohshima <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Yoshiki.Ohshima@acm.org" target="_blank">Yoshiki.Ohshima@acm.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">First question:<br>
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The Mac OS comes with Accelerate.Framework and that contains BLAS.<br>
But probably I still should compile those libraries, right?<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No, it's better to link to accelerated library.<br></div><div>I don't have a Mac handy here to verify how to link to it though.<br></div><div>I'll be able to check latter in the evening<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
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On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Yoshiki Ohshima<br>
<<a href="mailto:Yoshiki.Ohshima@acm.org">Yoshiki.Ohshima@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Thanks!<br>
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> On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Nicolas Cellier<br>
> <<a href="mailto:nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com">nicolas.cellier.aka.nice@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hi Yoshiki,<br>
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>> Thanks for inquiring about Smallapack.<br>
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>> This problem has been solved in 2011 as the post tells.<br>
>> Moreover, it was about alignment of squeak objects that was on multiple of 4<br>
>> on SqueakV3 memory.<br>
>> Spur is 8 byte aligned, so the problem would have also vanished without any<br>
>> patch for those being patient :)<br>
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>> For the 15 arguments limit, Smallapack comes with it's own compiler, so it's<br>
>> a non issue.<br>
>> Maybe I should make the documentation more clear on<br>
>> <a href="https://github.com/nicolas-cellier-aka-nice/smallapack/wiki/SmallapackSqueak" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/nicolas-cellier-aka-nice/smallapack/wiki/SmallapackSqueak</a><br>
>> ?<br>
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>> Unfortunately, there's no Sparse Matrix representation in Lapack.<br>
>> If you know of a good package for that, it could be integrated.<br>
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>> If you have other questions, don't hesitate to ask.<br>
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>> cheers<br>
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>> Nicolas<br>
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>> 2016-07-29 0:22 GMT+02:00 Yoshiki Ohshima <<a href="mailto:Yoshiki.Ohshima@acm.org">Yoshiki.Ohshima@acm.org</a>>:<br>
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>>> I am trying to do a bit of linear algebra stuff that involves to solve<br>
>>> a sparse 2D matrix (for a variation of doing least square fit).<br>
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>>> There was a message from Nicolas:<br>
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>>> <a href="http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2011-August/161113.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/2011-August/161113.html</a><br>
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>>> Is this where it stands today, too? It looks like that arg count<br>
>>> problem is still there in 5.0, but is it in a way non-issue as it is<br>
>>> still FFI based?<br>
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>>> Thanks!<br>
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>>> --<br>
>>> -- Yoshiki<br>
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> --<br>
> -- Yoshiki<br>
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-- Yoshiki<br>
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