The first major milestone of this project will be coding and setting up tests for the major building blocks of any feasible Matrix library. To start, wrappers for rand, free, and other essential library functions, will be worked on.Basic functions like m1ri_rand, and m1ri_free, have not appeared to any problems at this point, and seam to be working well.
Arithmetic in the form of element wise addition and multiplication (Hadamard Multiplication) is the first major area that is needing worked on. For GF(3), referred to as m3d, hadamard is implimented as element wise multiplication in that representation is trivial, taking 3 bit operations, half as many as is required for vector addition. GF(5), and GF(7) on the other hand, optimized in their representations for addition and traditional matrix multiplication, Boolean expression for element wise multiplication still found.
Tests with Autotools are an area that needs work, while simple benchmarks have been used, they've always been written on the fly and edited soon afterwards, and the current "tests" will succeed as long as the program doesn't have any syntax errors. To improve upon this, tests that check for logic errors with a pass fail on the aforementioned functions will be written in the following . Throughout this summer, testing for logic errors will be be a major theme of the project. This not only will make further work easier to build off of but will add to its legitimacy.
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