[squeak-dev] Smallapack

Yoshiki Ohshima Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org
Thu Jul 28 23:11:58 UTC 2016


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
>>
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-- Yoshiki


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