Draft JEP: Vector API (original) (raw)

Frank Yuan frank.yuan at oracle.com
Thu Apr 12 07:45:54 UTC 2018

-----Original Message----- From: Weijun Wang [mailto:weijun.wang at oracle.com] Subject: Re: Draft JEP: Vector API

Maybe it makes sense to call this FixedVector or BlockVector and save the Vector class for real mathematicians. Of course, we already had a java.util.Vector still alive.

But, Max, that Vector is only a container class.

Frank

--Max > On Apr 10, 2018, at 12:04 PM, Frank Yuan <frank.yuan at oracle.com> wrote: > > The second comment is that the users should not like to handle the details on the vector size, they only desire the vector > computation power! We should wrap all these details, provide a high level abstract for the vector in terms of the math concept, do > the loop in our private code and pad the tail. > User just say "I want vector a subtract vector b", then we give him a result.

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