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The Blitz++ library provides numeric arrays for C++ with efficiency that rivals Fortran, without any language extensions. Blitz++ has features unavailable in Fortran 90/95, such as arbitrary transpose operations, array renaming, tensor notation, partial reductions, multi-component arrays and stencil operators. The library handles parsing and analysis of array expressions on its own using the expression templates technique, and performs optimizations (such as loop transformations) which have until now been the responsibility of compilers.
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Veldhuizen, T.L. (1998). Arrays in Blitz++. In: Caromel, D., Oldehoeft, R.R., Tholburn, M. (eds) Computing in Object-Oriented Parallel Environments. ISCOPE 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1505. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49372-7_24
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