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Roman Poya

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Roman Poya's personal blog at romanpoya.medium.com covers programming and science. Since 2022, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “C++ Expression Templates: Eigen, Blaze, Fastor, Armadillo & XTensor (2020)”. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.

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6mentions?
6HN people?
2022–2025first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 2 in 2022

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN readers link Roman Poya's performance benchmark of C++ math libraries (Eigen, Blaze, Fastor, Armadillo, xtensor), covering run-time and compile-time performance, as a comparison source.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. C++ Expression Templates: Eigen, Blaze, Fastor, Armadillo & XTensor (2020)
    6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-08-05

What Hacker News says?

  1. These benchmarks look to be ~8 years old, and don't really agree with benchmarks done by other sources ( https://romanpoya.medium.com/a-look-at-the-performance-of-ex... , https://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Benchmark ) In general I would be skeptical about any benchmark that claims to beat MKL significantly on standard operations

    Comment linking /a-look-at-the-performance-of-expression-templates-in-c-eigen-vs-blaze-vs-fastor-vs-armadillo-vs-2474ed38d982

    on “Blaze: A High Performance C++ Math Library”
  2. Submitted C++ Expression Templates: Eigen, Blaze, Fastor, Armadillo & XTensor (2020) as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  3. Here is a benchmark from 2020 comparing Eigen, Blaze, Fastor, Armadillo, and XTensor (run-time and compile time performance): https://romanpoya.medium.com/a-look-at-the-performance-of-ex...

    Comment linking /a-look-at-the-performance-of-expression-templates-in-c-eigen-vs-blaze-vs-fastor-vs-armadillo-vs-2474ed38d982

    on “Blaze: High Performance Mathematics In C++”
  4. Submitted Performance of Eigen vs. Blaze vs. Fastor vs. Armadillo vs. XTensor (2020) as a story · 19 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted A look at the performance of expression templates in C++: Eigen, Blaze, Fastor as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Eigen vs. Blaze vs. Fastor vs. Armadillo vs. XTensor as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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