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Re:Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding by jordigh on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:02PM (#14597472)
How do they sell the non-GPL version? Just replace the GPL libraries like FFTW with inferior replacements like FFTPACK?
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Re:Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding by _delirium on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @03:39PM (#14597833)
The non-GPL version uses Intel's proprietary Math Kernel Library (MKL) for FFTs, linear algebra, etc.
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Re:Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding by jordigh on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:00PM (#14598030)
Huh, so did MKL just reimplement FFTW? I see that they have an interface for it. Or maybe they bought a GPL exception to FFTW.
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Re:Julia Computing Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding by ihnorton on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:36PM (#14598382)
They expose an FFTW-compatible API, but as far as I know it's an independent implementation.
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