New field type

[Mahrud Sayrafi]

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone could point me to any resources about adding a new field type to ffpack, for instance using Flint finite fields for arithmetic. My understanding is that this should be possible, since ffpack is a C++ template library, but if I'm wrong, or if using something other than Givaro would significantly reduce the speed, please let me know.

At the moment I'm only interested in very basic routines, like matrix rank, so hopefully a partial interface would suffice. I tried to experiment with making a clone of ModularBalanced<double>, but it would not compile. If there's a minimal example, or perhaps any helpful commits or pull requests you could point me to that would be very helpful.

Best,

Mahrud

[Mahrud Sayrafi]

In case anybody else is interested, I managed to get to a working proof of concept (see here), computing the rank of a matrix using fmpz-templated fflas-ffpack.

Mahrud

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ffpack-devel" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ffpack-devel...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ffpack-devel/a808cc4c-b630-4bbe-9ed0-d4e1fe884dfdn%40googlegroups.com.