Re: matrix operations and temporary objects?

[Leo Razoumov <slonik.az@...>]

On 8/3/09, Mike Pall <mikelu-0908@mike.de> wrote:
> 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

Interesting paper, indeed. But implementing array fusion will require
massive changes to Lua code itself. I was hoping to be able to manage
temporaries within standard lua and luajit. I am afraid it is not
possible.

--Leo--