Tutorial

MTL4 is still in an early state of development and it is possible that some details may change during further implementation. However, we will do our best that applications are minimally affected. In particular, the topics in the tutorial are not subject to modifications. This, of course, does not exclude backward-compatible extensions.

  1. Vector and Matrix Types
    1. Vector Types
    2. Matrix Types
  2. Generic Insertion
    1. Vector Insertion
    2. Matrix Insertion
  3. Assignment
    1. Vector Assignment
    2. Matrix Assignment
  4. Operators
    1. Vector Expressions
    2. Rich Vector Expressions
    3. Matrix Expressions
    4. Matrix-Vector Expressions
  5. Norms
    1. Vector Norms
    2. Matrix Norms
  6. Reductions
    1. Vector Reductions
  7. Other Functions
    1. Conjugates
    2. Transposed
    3. Hermitian
    4. Sub-matrices
    5. Permutations and Reordering
    6. Banded Matrix View, Upper and Lower Triangular Views
    7. Rank-One and Rank-Two Update
    8. Other Matrix Functions
  8. Solving Linear Systems
    1. Triangular Solvers
    2. Introduction Krylov-Subspace Methods
    3. Using Predefined Linear Solvers
  9. Traversing Matrices and Vectors
    1. Iteration
    2. Recursion
  10. Advanced Topics
    1. Why and How we use Functors
  11. Discussion
    1. Copying in MTL4
    2. Why Not Using Shallow Copy in Numerical Software
    3. Addicted to peak performance
  12. Performance
    1. Performance on an AMD Athlon 2GHz





Tutorial -- MTL 4 -- Peter Gottschling and Andrew Lumsdaine -- Generated on 19 May 2009 by Doxygen 1.5.5 -- Copyright 2007 by the Trustees of Indiana University.