As one of the use cases "Data analysis and Scienti...
# kotlin-nativev
voddan
04/04/2017, 1:16 PMAs one of the use cases "Data analysis and Scientific Computing" was listed.
Could you explain how DA related to native compilation? Because AFAIK performance-critical DA tasks are done in Java on JVM
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olonho
04/04/2017, 1:41 PMBecause FP computations with C libraries interop shall be rather straightforward
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voddan
04/04/2017, 1:56 PMHi @olonho! Sorry, what's FP? Can't google it 😞
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olonho
04/04/2017, 1:59 PMFloating point I mean
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voddan
04/04/2017, 2:11 PMOh, interesting! I did not know it was a performance bottle neck for DA. I thought it was more about using GPU and stuff.
voddan
04/04/2017, 2:13 PMDo JB consider support porting ML and DA libraries to kotlin-JVM? Because all the necessary algorithms are already implemented in Java, but nobody wants to use them for prototyping
voddan
04/04/2017, 2:14 PMI'am asking because it looks like JB will provide similar ports for C/Python libraries