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by spacedome 2187 days ago
They are solving the linear system Ax=b, written in Julia/Matlab usually as A\b, specifically for a fixed size 5x5 matrix. The Grassmann algebras can give a way of representing the matrix and vectors, and a comparison is being made to the representation (and solver) given by StaticArrays.jl, which just uses typical matrices and arrays but optimized for small sizes. No real motivation to use Grassmann algebras if your only concern is generally solving a linear system, other than this method seeming to be faster, which mostly (imo) points to the StaticArrays.jl method needing to be optimized.

Edit: This post also does not mention numerical stability of the Grassmann.jl method, which is a real concern in practice, even for such small systems.