Re: [Jython-users] Using JAMA arrays with Jython. Jython examples

[Steve L. <lis...@ar...>]

Hey Alfonso,

On Oct 14, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Alfonso Reyes wrote:

> I was feeling the need to exercise my rusty array learnings from  
> the university when we used to do this with Pascal and Fortran and  
> decided to evaluate the Java array libraries available. One of them  
> is JAMA, a very powerful and simple to use matrix manipulation  
> package.

That's pretty neat.  I often wonder if it would be worth it to port  
something like NumPy over to Jython w/ one of these java ndarray  
backends. I've been using the colt library for some time (http:// 
dsd.lbl.gov/~hoschek/colt/) in Java land and find it to be quite nice.

Has anybody else found "the need" to undertake a project like this?  
(Some googling actually turned up this issue at the Astronomy BOF @  
the SciPy conference this year (http://www.google.com/notebook/public/ 
00116375172106219610/BDQGkIwoQzuK738Yi
))

I'm not sure if there's a big payoff in doing this, though. The  
IPython+numpy/scipy+matplotlib combo is great, but I'm not sure what  
you'd get from porting to jython, since its pretty well self  
contained in and of itself.

Thoughts?

-steve