From: Matt Borland (matt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-03-28 09:36:46
On Thursday, March 28th, 2024 at 9:54 AM, Artyom Beilis via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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> > One of the big pushes for C++26 is BLAS. I'll bet if you look hard enough
> > you can find a box of FORTRAN punch cards with a reference implementation
> > on it. Because it's not new is not valuable? There is still quite a bit of
> > research going on in the problem space: https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.10173.
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> But why?
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https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p1673r11.html#why-include-dense-linear-algebra-in-the-c-standard-library. For sure the STLs will not have the fastest possible implementation, but it will be broadly useful even though it is nowhere near novel.
Matt