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vectorz-clj
Fast vector library for Clojure, building on the Vectorz library and designed to work with the core.matrix array programming API.
vectorz-clj
is designed so that you don't have to compromise, offering both:
- An idiomatic high-level Clojure API using core.matrix
- General purpose multi-dimensional arrays
- High performance (about as fast as you can get on the JVM). vectorz-clj is currently the fastest pure-JVM vector/matrix library available for Clojure
The library was originally designed for games, simulations and machine learning applications,
but should be applicable for any situations where you need numerical double
arrays.
Important features:
- "Pure" functions for an idiomatic functional programming style are provided. These return new vectors without mutating their arguments.
- Primitive-backed special purpose vectors and matrices for performance, e.g.
Vector3
for fast 3D maths. - Flexible DSL-style functions for manipulating vectors and matrices, e.g. the ability to create a "view" into a subspace of a large vector.
- core.matrix fully supported - see: https://github.com/mikera/core.matrix
- Pure JVM code - no native dependencies
- "Impure" functions that mutate vectors are available for performance when you need it: i.e. you can use a nice functional style most of the time, but switch to mutation when you hit a bottleneck.
Documentation
For more information see the vectorz-clj Wiki.
Status
vectorz-clj
requires Clojure 1.4 or above, and an up to date version of core.matrix
vectorz-clj
is reasonably stable, and implements all of the core.matrix
API feature set. The core.matrix
API
is still under development, so users may expect some minor changes to the API in future releases.
License
Like Vectorz
, vectorz-clj
is licensed under the LGPL license:
Usage
Follow the instructions to install with Leiningen / Maven from Clojars:
You can then use Vectorz
as a standard core.matrix
implementation. Example:
(use 'clojure.core.matrix)
(use 'clojure.core.matrix.operators) ;; overrides *, + etc. for matrices
(set-current-implementation :vectorz) ;; use Vectorz as default matrix implementation
;; define a 2x2 Matrix
(def M (matrix [[1 2] [3 4]]))
M
=> #<Matrix22 [[1.0,2.0][3.0,4.0]]>
;; define a length 2 vector (a 1D matrix is considered equivalent to a vector in core.matrix)
(def v (matrix [1 2]))
v
=> #<Vector2 [1.0,2.0]>
;; Matrix x Vector elementwise multiply
(mul M v)
=> #<Matrix22 [[1.0,4.0],[3.0,8.0]]>
;; Matrix x Vector matrix multiply (inner product)
(inner-product M v)
=> #<Vector2 [5.0,11.0]>
For more examples see Wiki Examples