Best Practices

NMath and Silverlight

From time to time, we’re asked about the best way to use NMath to build Silverlight applications. Unfortunately, like so many answers in software development, the answer is: it depends. Silverlight is a great way to build line of business applications, but at its core, Silverlight runs within a sandboxed environment, typically within a browser, and usually within a networked intranet or Internet ...
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Clearing a vector

A customer recently asked us for the best method to zero out a vector. We decided to run some tests to find out. Here are the five methods we tried followed by performance timing and any drawbacks. The following tests were performed on a DoubleVector of length 10,000,000. 1) Create a new vector. This isn't really clearing out an existing vector but we thought we should include it for complet...
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Initializing NMath

NMath uses Intel's Math Kernel Library (MKL) internally. This code contains native, optimized code to wring out the best performance possible. There is a one-time delay when the appropriate x86 or x64 native code is loaded. This cost can be easily controlled by the developer by using the NMathKernel.Init() method. Please see Initializing NMath for more details. - Trevor
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.NET Curve Fitting Applied to Golf

“I've heard people say putting is 50 percent technique and 50 percent mental. I really believe it is 50 percent technique and 90 percent positive thinking. See… but that adds up to 140 percent, which is why nobody is 100 percent sure how to putt!" - Chi Chi Rodriguez Two retired scientists, self-proclaimed duffers, came to us asking for help with their retirement project: to improve their puttin...
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