Re: Can Lua/Ravi beat Fortran?

[Dirk Laurie <dirk.laurie@...>]

2015-08-08 2:39 GMT+02:00 Dibyendu Majumdar <mobile@majumdar.org.uk>:

> I mentioned before that I intend to build and maintain a bunch of
> standard libraries for Ravi. One of the first ones I am working on is
> a Matrix library (https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/ravi-matrix). I
> am aware of numlua project before anyone asks!

NumLua is not even unmaintained, it is uncompleted. It is still stuck
at Lua 5.1 and even that version (whose webpage was last updated
8 years ago) has no documentation. The lesson to be learnt is that
a comprehensive numerical library is not a job for one programmer
who has other interests too.

The leading Lua-based numerical package is GSL-Shell, which hooks
into well-maintained libraries and has truly awesome documentation.
Its one disadvantage from a Lua 5.3 point of view is that it is based
on LuaJIT.