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.. highlight:: c
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This library provides a multi-dimensionnal array library
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for numerical computations with the following characteristics/goals:
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* **Simplicity of use** :
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Arrays must be as simple to use as in python (numpy) or fortran.
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This library is designed to be used by physicists, not by professionnal
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programmers. We do *a lot* of array manipulations, and we want to maintain
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*readable* codes.
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* **Genericity, abstraction and performance**:
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We want to have simple, readeable code, with the same (or better) speed than manually written low-level code.
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Most optimisations should be delegated to the library and the compiler.
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(Some) LAPACK and BLAS operations are interfaced.
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* **Complete interoperability with python numpy arrays**.
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This library is used a lot with mixed C++/python codes.
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It handles quick conversion between the C++ and python world, e.g. :
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* work on a view of a numpy,
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* create a array in C++, and return it as a numpy.
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* mix the various kind of arrays transparently in C++ expressions.
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* **HDF5**: simple interface to hdf5 library to ease storing/retrieving into/from HDF5 files.
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* **MPI**: compatibility with boost::mpi interface.
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