Draft JEP: Vector API

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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