Re: What is the need of Eigen2???

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Re: What is the need of Eigen2???
by Benoit Jacob on Monday 24/Dec/2007, @07:22

You might look at it the converse way. The existing math libs may look satisfying to a numerical engineer, but from the point of view of a c++ software developer they are _horrible_ and they don't even cover the needs of simple apps, for instance they don't handle fixed-size objects. Since many projects besides KDE need linear algebra, you can bet that Eigen2 will easily find its public, hence a pool of potential contributor. In fact, even the very minimalistic Eigen1 was received with enthusiasm from game developers.

And yes, we are planning to wrap around existing libs for what we don't want to reinvent.

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