2010/6/20 Michael Haupt <mhaupt at gmail.com>:
> Hi Nicolas,
>
> On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Nicolas Cellier
> <nicolas.cellier.aka.nice at gmail.com> wrote:
>> About 8) :  True, every single operation results in memory allocation
>> / garbage collection, a burden for number crunching.
>
> really?
>
> There is this nice book by Didier Besset called "Object-Oriented
> Implementation of Numerical Methods. An Introduction with Java and
> Smalltalk.: An Introduction with Java and Smalltalk". It can't be
> *that* bad. :-)
>

Agree, "not worse than Matlab" was the meaning of my message.

>> My own answer was: use C/FORTRAN for optimized number crunching
>> functions. Use Smalltalk for any higher level/GUI function (via
>> DLLCC/FFI). We may have more than 1 hammer in your toolset!
>
> With GPU connectivity things emerging, number crunching might even be
> an interesting area for Smalltalk.
>
> Best,
>
> Michael
>

Yes, this falls in vectorizing the operations.
But I would go for a GPU-BLAS implementation available to any language
(Smalltalk and C as well).

Nicolas