From: "Ara.T.Howard" Date: 2005-10-26T09:02:03+09:00 Subject: Re: narray and the stdlib On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Phil Tomson wrote: > In article , > Ara.T.Howard wrote: >> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Phil Tomson wrote: >> >>> In article , >>> Cameron McBride wrote: >>>> On a ruby-core thread: >>>> >>>> (in reference to http://rcrchive.net/rcr/show/260 ) >>>> >>>> On 10/24/05, Ara.T.Howard wrote: >>> >>> Personally, I'd really like it if it were in the standard lib because then >>> I wouldn't have to install it on all the different machines I want to use >>> it on (Currently running simulations on a Linux box, two Solaris boxen, >>> and OSX). However, I think the real pushback is that the standard ruby >>> distro is getting rather large and adding something with the limited >>> appeal of narray may not be such a good idea in the effort to keep Ruby >>> trim. >>> >>> I don't recall if narray is available as a gem or not. As I recall the >>> last time I downloaded it it was not a gem. So gem-ifying narray would >>> probably help, although I am using a version of narray that I have >>> modified so it doesn't do me much good. >> >> what did you do? mine suports read/write mmap so an narray can be backed by a >> file and any write to the narray writes to the file - very dangerous, not >> reccomended, and extremely useful for tweaking a gb grid with minimal io. >> > > I wanted to treat an NArray as an N-dimensional point so that I could find > the distance from one point to another. I added a distance method and a > couple of other geometrically oriented methods in C. hmmm. what were you doing? sounds interesting. any chance you could post that on sciruby? regards. -a -- =============================================================================== | email :: ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | phone :: 303.497.6469 | anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned. | -- h.h. the 14th dalai lama ===============================================================================