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by rayrrr 792 days ago
How exactly does this dovetail with https://github.com/rust-or/good_lp ? Will it be a replacement, an enhancement, or something else?
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Seems like a different focus, no? Aren't linear programming solvers a much narrower domain than general linear algebra libraries?
Correct, linear algebra and linear programming are two very distinct things. The latter is a widely-used optimization technique, and computationally depends on the former, which is a general mathematical framework for essentially all numerical computing.
That's code for linear programming (optimization) not for linear algebra
I asked because Faer describes itself as a low-level linear algebra library with a high-level wrapper, whereas good_lp describes itself as a high-level wrapper around many relevant low-level libraries.
Linear programming and linear algebra aren't the same thing.