[jira] [Commented] (MATH-717) A varied class of Array2DRowRealMatrix is needed to contain float type instead of double.

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Gilles commented on MATH-717:
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What kind of use do you have for very large matrices?

                
> A varied class of Array2DRowRealMatrix is needed to contain float type instead of double.
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>                 Key: MATH-717
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-717
>             Project: Commons Math
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.2
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Dusan Ku
>              Labels: features
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> The current implementation of Array2DRowRealMatrix takes only double type as its base element value in the matrix.
> However, the memory size of double is bigger than float, the downside of which makes the matrix dimension quite limited, compared to float type as its base element type. For small sized problem, this does not make such a big difference, but for large problems, this limits the usability of this library quite severely. In my case, I easily hit an error even after I increase the memory option to 1G. This could have been much more enhanced just by using 'float[][]' instead of the current Array2DRowRealMatrix.
> Therefore, the solution I may suggest is to add another class similar to Array2DRowRealMatrix containing float type for its matrix variable instead of double. Of course, a better way is welcome as long as the needs can be fulfilled.

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