Re: matrix operations and temporary objects?

[Mike Pall <mikelu-0908@...>]

Leo Razoumov wrote:
> Is it possible to do something in Lua and somehow control use of
> temporary objects when dealing with typical +-*/ math operations in
> Lua?? The underlying math library API is of the older variety and
> expects user to do all the resource allocations.

This paper might give you further ideas and has more references:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.30.4562

  E. Christopher Lewis, Calvin Lin, and Lawrence Snyder,
  "The Implementation and Evaluation of Fusion and Contraction
   in Array Languages", PLDI '98

--Mike